The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
(^312) Chapter Nine Russia’s position was like that of Great Britain in the sense that migration towards a politically accessibl ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century^313 It is ironic to reflect on the difference between German and French developments. Had th ...
(^314) Chapter Nine later dates in other parts of eastern Europe. The Balkans, accordingly, became the powder keg of Europe. It ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 315 people trying to live on too little land emerged. For it was during and after World War ...
316 Chapter Nine Japan’s twentieth-century imperial aggression coincided with a surge in that nation’s population growth that cr ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 317 large-scale human effort. I therefore propose to treat the managerial metamorphosis wrou ...
318 Chapter Nine would turn out to be correct. The Schlieffen plan unrolled almost as the Great General Staff had hoped. German ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 319 ing, since the able-bodied workers had been drafted like everybody else.^26 Hence when i ...
320 Chapter Nine In the first furious weeks, cost scarcely mattered. Some 25,000 subcontractors began making munitions of one so ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 321 time armaments industry. Women, children, foreigners, prisoners of war, and mutilated ve ...
322 Chapter Nine sources on munitions production and front line soldiering to a degree otherwise unattainable. French production ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 323 suppliers increasingly difficult.^38 The British blockade made it obvious that if the Ge ...
324 Chapter Nine time and subsequently. Substitutes for many items could in fact be found. Other metals replaced copper in shell ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 325 Difficulties at home scarcely mattered as long as German armies remained successful in t ...
326 Chapter Nine the changed scale of operations. Massive orders were placed with pri vate firms and with Woolwich for everythi ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 327 professions. Their loosely liberal biases and preconceptions con trasted with the more ...
328 Chapter Nine World markets beyond the borders of the United States were also open to Great Britain and France. Indeed, long- ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 329 Russia, too, faced intense internal administrative difficulties as the strain of war set ...
330 Chapter Nine eration between Russian artillery and infantry contributed more than was admitted at the time to the disaster t ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 331 mass production had been applied to the manufacture of small arms in the United States a ...
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