HIS344Y1 Lecture : October 19th 2010
Document Summary
The first phase of the nuclear arms race. Revolutionary military technology and diplomacy and international relations was the infamous machine gun during wwi. Every single state that entered the wwi had one military mind: offensive war. 1914 and what followed after was a strategic bankruptcy. Not one state could find an antidote to the machine gun. The application of new science and new technology. Instead of developing new strategies, but bought in new innovating weapons j airplanes, tanks and submarines in 1914, 1915 and 1916. Without a good strategy, they cannot win the war even if they have all these weapons. It takes years for states to make good use of the weapons strategically. Blitzkrieg applied the weapons and overcome the difficulties of the machine guns. Germans did quite well during the initial stages but miscalculated, having taken way too much, the resistance.
