Technology, Violence, and War

Robert S. Ehlers, Jr., Ph.D. (2005), The Ohio State University, is the Senior Mentor for Department of Defense Information Environment Advanced Analysis Course. Known for his works on World War II Allied air forces, including Targeting the Third Reich and The Mediterranean Air War. Sarah K. Douglas, Ph.D. (2015), The Ohio State University, is a Lecturer at OSU, teaching a range of military history courses from the middle ages to Vietnam. Her first book, Partus Pestilentiae, is currently being reviewed for publication. Daniel P.M. Curzon, Ph.D. candidate, The Ohio State University, is working on a dissertation entitled Pacific Triumvirate, concerning the relations among Great Britain, Japan, and the United States of America.

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Introduction

1 Technology and Strategy: What Are the Limits?

 John F. Guilmartin Jr.



Part 1: The Pre-World World, 1300–1800

2 Gunpowder Artillery in Europe, 1326–1500: Innovation and Impact

 Clifford J. Rogers

3 To the Seas: The Genesis of Ship Rigging in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds

 Sarah K. Douglas

4 The Lost World: Change and Continuity in Mughal Military Technology

 Andrew de la Garza



Part 2: 19th Century Warfare

5 If You Can Be Seen, You Can Be Killed: The Technological Increase in Killing Zone during the American Civil War

 Edward B. McCaul, Jr.

6 Without Experience or Precedent: Transformational Technology and the Light Draft Monitors

 William Roberts

7 The Uganda Railway and the Fabrication of Kenya

 Robert H. Clemm



Part 3: The World Wars

8 German Technology and the Origins of World War ii in East Asia

 Robyn Rodriguez

9 Freeman’s Folly: The Debate over the Development of the “Unarmed Bomber” and the Genesis of the de Havilland Mosquito, 1935–1940

 Sebastian Cox

10 The Impact of Institutional Context: Anglo-American Naval Fire Control

 Corbin Williamson

11 Strategy, Technology, and Timing: Aircraft, the Mediterranean Air War, and the Turning of the Tide in the European Theater

 Robert S. Ehlers, Jr.



Part 4: War Since 1945

12 The War Is Lost: Technological Surprise and the Collapse of Portugal’s Colonial Airpower Strategy, Guinea 1963–1974

 Matthew M. Hurley

13 The Vicissitudes of Violence: Fear, Physiology, and Behavior under Fire

 Ed Coss

14 Des Fusils Aux Idée: Technological Skepticism and Masculinity in the French Army, 1954–1962

 William Waddell

15 Cyber: War?

 Michael Pavelec

16 The Precision-Information Revolution in Military Affairs and The Limits of Technology

 Peter R. Mansoor



Epilogue: Reflections On A Warrior and Scholar

 Alan Beyerchen

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