How do the impact of technology on military matters and the military’s impact back on economic matters alter national competitiveness? Take any one of the countless cases such as the use of gunpowder and the end of feudalism and the effect of this on economic behaviour, or the invention of steam powered iron clad war ship and the end of sail, or the invention of fast firing guns (Gettysburg was lost in Pickets charge which failed because the new union guns could get of four rounds against a charge rather than two as before–when two volleys were all that could be put against a charge the charge had a good chance of reaching the opposing forces). The machine gun followed and revolutionized the First World War producing slow attrition rather than fast victory (as in the Franco Prussian war of 1870) since the defence had the advantage. In the Second World War, the tank and aircraft gave the advantage back to the offence. William MacNeil, “Technology and the Pursuit of Power” is a good place to start. More futuristic is the advantage to small guerrilla forces given by the atom bomb and other technological revolutions that make modern armies able to fight global wars but ill-equipped to fight small local ones against irregular forces.
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