War Made New

Second, that countries able to take advantage of these shifts have been history’s winners while those that have fallen behind in harnessing military innovations have usually been consigned to irrelevance or oblivion. Thus, each revolution has been accompanied by a shift in the international balance of power. Third, that even if a country figures ou

The most obvious impact of the Information Revolution has been felt on the economy, where it has been reshaping one industry after another, much as the First and Second Industrial Revolutions did. Boeing offers a good example. In 1962, it unveiled the Boeing 727 after almost seven years of work by five thousand engineers. Thirty-two years later, in

the disproportionate impact of “smart” bombs,

For the Second Industrial Revolution, which transformed warfare in the 1920s and 1930s and whose repercussions were felt in the 1940s,

FIVE THEMES As this book explores four military revolutions, five major themes will emerge:

highly trained commandos and precision weaponry—a high-low mix of technologies—could

cruise missiles,

For the Industrial Revolution (which includes the democratization of warfare associated with the French Revolution), I have chosen to look at the Battles of Königgrätz (1866), Omdurman (1898), and Tsushima (1905). At Königgrätz (also known as the Battle of Sadowa), one of the most important stepping-stones toward the creation of the German Reich, t

The blitzkrieg