The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
252 Chapter Seven formance was, perhaps, the master key to their dazzling succession of victories. The application of reason and ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 253 brief but bloody civil war between a newly elected French government and the Commune of Pa ...
254 Chapter Seven The Prussian victories of 1866 and 1870–71 gave army officers, in Germany and other leading continental states ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 255 after 1870 a character of their own, noticeably offset from the ethos of long-service troo ...
256 Chapter Seven Krupp and Armstrong. By the 1880s this technical gap had become glaring, and when the Royal Navy managed to br ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 257 service army in 1889, maintained volunteer units in their African and Asian colonies, incl ...
258 Chapter Seven The fact was that army and navy detachments did not cost much more when they went into the field than when the ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84 259 conquered Moslem tribes and states with ease. The tsar’s soldiers found scope for old-fash ...
260 Chapter Seven arising from their steady development of new industrial and commer cial activities. Great Britain, on the con ...
Industrialization of War, 1840–84^261 never before. World markets reached across all existing political boundaries, though tarif ...
8 Intensified Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 Just as the industrialization of war can be dated to the 1840s, when ra ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 263 existing capital ships, yet heavily enough gunned to overpower any lesser target, ...
264 Chapter Eight the navy and still compel British warships to withdraw from the Mediterrannean and retire from the Atlantic co ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 265 quick-moving targets. In short, Goliath confronted David over again—this time on ...
Steel Technology and Mass Production of Armaments These four photographs show how the firm of Krupp used a head start in steel t ...
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(^268) Chapter Eight metal. This required a fundamentally different plant from anything Woolwich had in hand. No matter how fast ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 269 had been loath to make. The First Sea Lord of the time, Sir Astley Cooper Key, di ...
270 Chapter Eight in a bill that widened the franchise substantially. Thereafter, the income tax affected only a small proportio ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 271 tide that the arsenal could not supply quickly or more cheaply. Though no one rea ...
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