Book Review: War Made New: Weapons, Warriors, and the Making of the Modern World, by Max Boot

Abstract

Max Boot's work, War Made New: Weapons, Warriors, and the Making of the Modern World is a cumulative composition of the development and history of warfare. The text begins with the gunpowder revolution, progresses through the industrial revolution and beyond to today's information revolution, and concludes with how the past affects the present along with a peek into potential future military innovations and their impacts.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 12, 2013
Accession Number
AD1016420

Entities

People

  • Edward Boylan

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Battles
  • Foreign Relations
  • History
  • Iraqi-War
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • New York
  • Revolutions
  • Search And Rescue
  • Second World War
  • Students
  • War
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.