The Pursuit of Power. Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
During World War I a few visionaries saw that new. gasoline-powered weapons systems could transcend existing muscular limits on ...
seize headquarters, disrupt command and supply, and spread panic among front-line troops. The war ended before this bold plan fo ...
334 Chapter Nine of what could be accomplished along these lines. Early in the war it occurred to several persons that a tracked ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 335 railheads depended on horse-drawn vehicles or human portage, mus cular capabilities set ...
336 Chapter Nine tives and spokesmen.^53 The alliance among government bureaucrats, labor bureaucrats, and business bureaucrats ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 337 the past, what ought to be called national socialism, if Hitler had not preempted the te ...
338 Chapter Nine The war thereupon assumed a new ideological aspect. Lenin’s chal lenge to the legitimacy of all the government ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 339 When the Hindenburg Plan was first proclaimed, no one clearly recognized that manpower, ...
(^340) Chapter Nine harvest as well. Efforts to fix agricultural prices misfired, whereupon black marketing proliferated, underm ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 341 years of the war, especially when strikes and the Reichstag “Peace resolution” of 1917 s ...
(^342) Chapter Nine The principal agency coordinating French and British economic planning in the last year of the war was the A ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 343 The British, too, resorted increasingly to compulsory regulation, e.g., in rationing foo ...
(^344) Chapter Nine can soldiers were successfully transported to France, and, to save time and shipping space, their heavy equi ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 345 ment, and from the armed services came together to make this possi ble; but the princip ...
346 Chapter Nine war, were far too dazzling to abandon with the peace.^66 But private pursuit of the good life, however defined, ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 347 Soviet-style economic planning with war mobilization more obvious. Certainly the rhetori ...
348 Chapter Nine China was quite unable to match Japan’s military and economic upthrust. Neither the United States nor the Leagu ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 349 wholly reconciled to market methods of mobilizing resources or reg ulating individual r ...
(^350) Chapter Nine sop up unemployment through programs of public works rather than through military mobilization; and, also li ...
World Wars of the Twentieth Century 351 fires’ scarcity in 1940 constituted a severe limit on the Royal Air Force’s ability to r ...
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