User:Laurier Rochon/readingnotes/shock of the old
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David Edgerton > The Shock of The Old
- Science <--> Military
- Arms = civilian development applied to military context...really?
- Key technologies : airplane, atomic bomb.
- "Civilian academic science". What does that mean?
- "War stimulates invention, but the army resists it!"
- Killer #1 in wars : big guns, then small arms (rifle).
- Kalashnikov : 70 to 100 million out of the 90-120 million produced rifles from 1945-1995.
- Logic of deterrence, not use.
- "Germany was comprehensively defeated by powers which did indeed stress the economic and technological factors in war".
- New weapons = more civilian deaths
- "Old power relations are transmitted through new technology"
