The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
292 Chapter Eight the 1880s, when intimate collaboration between navy officers and pri vate engineers and production experts en ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 293 agerial decisions in the Admiralty meshed into financial and manage rial decisio ...
294 Chapter Eight dominated decision-making. The important thing was how closely public and private motives intertwined. Market ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 295 courses for both the target and the test ship presented entirely differ ent prob ...
296 Chapter Eight perts. ... I have been guided by the representations of my naval colleagues and the advice of experts on whom ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 297 understood fully what was at stake. The whole question was supposed to be secret, ...
298 Chapter Eight tial enthusiasm for Pollen’s invention evaporated when his subordi nates told him that their cheaper device w ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 299 management, having won enormous and impressive victories on every front,^62 never ...
300 Chapter Eight French field artillery was, in fact, of superior design;^66 but what sewed up the Russian market for the Frenc ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 301 The French invasion of foreign arms markets was of serious concern to Krupp and t ...
302 Chapter Eight value in the decade from 1895 to 1904, to 12.8 million francs annual average value in the years 1905 to 1913–^ ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 303 row seas. Instead, Tirpitz proclaimed a “risk” theory, to the effect that when th ...
304 Chapter Eight mobilize potential supporters. He did so systematically and thor oughly. Newspapers and journalists, industri ...
Military-Industrial Interaction, 1884–1914 305 after the triumph of 1870–71, fear of what a truly mass army might do to the priv ...
306 Chapter Eight military intelligence. But from 1893, when it was first devised, until 1914, when it was acted upon, the basic ...
9 World Wars of the Twentieth Century Men went gladly to war in Au gust 1914 in the more urbanized parts of Europe. Almost ever ...
308 Chapter Nine Those who experienced the war were quite unable to fit what hap pened into any pattern of prior experience. Th ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 309 to be able to afford the luxury of quarreling among themselves when the fighting ended.^ ...
310 Chapter Nine tion of the two wars. The ferocity with which they were fought, and the far-reaching transformations that the w ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 311 and 1914 emigration assumed extraordinary proportions, carrying millions across the seas ...
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