HIST 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Indiscipline, Spice Trade, Prime Factor
10 Aug 2016
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Introduction: the shape of modern war page 3-19: modern war is the product of 3 distinct kinds of changes, administrative, technical. Ideological: military technology has produced the most striking and indeed terrifying symbols of modern war: the machine-gun, the rocket, the atomic bomb. Absolute war" war without restraints of limits, following the logic of force alone; if one side uses force without compunction, while the other side refrains, the first will gain the upper hand. In the same period the machine-gun was transformed from the unwieldy multiple-barreled. Gatling gun and the french mitrailleuse through hiram maxim"s manufacture, in the mid- Everyone seems to feel that it will be waged with a destructive force such as has hitherto never been displayed. The belief that numbers are all-powerful is demoralizing; it has always been wrong, and is more so now than ever.
