INTA 2040 Chapter intro-1: Van Creveld

• School: Georgia Tech
• Department: International Affairs
• Course: INTA 2040
• Professor: S.E.Goodman

Document Summary

_war is completely permeated by technology and governed by it. (the role of technology in the development and transformation of war) _war consists of more than weapons and weapon systems; it is about tactics, operations, strategy, logistic, intelligence, c3 (command, control, communication), and organizations and so on. These are all affected by weapons, but also by technology, innovation, and conceptualization (roads, vehicles, communications, timekeepers, and maps. Part i: age of tools, starts before 2000 b. c and ends around 1500 a. d. Most important raw material used for construction of technology devices was wood and progress was very slow. Part ii: age of machines, beginning in renaissance and ending around 1830. Its theme is that technology, with military technology in the van, had now reached the point where a dominant role began to be played by machines deriving their energy from nonorganic sources (wind, water, and gunpowder). The process of innovation accelerated and metal replaced wood (especially for military technology.