War in the Age of Technology: Myriad Faces of Modern Armed Conflict

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INDEX ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ 385 Accuracy of fire, 23–24, 29–30, 38; in American Civil War, 27–28; in First World War, 33–34; in Yom Kippur/ Ramadan War, 53–54 Achilles, 296 Achtung—Panzer!, 87 Active defense, 53–55 Afghan War, 374 African Americans. See Black experience in World War II AirLand Battle, 55–60, 212. See also Gulf War Airpower, 20; and communications, 90–92; role of state-sponsored research in development of, 45 Albert, Battle of, 194 Alcohol, in First World War, 156–158 Alienation, 2, 12 Allenby, Edmund, 170 Allison, J., 114–115 American Civil War, 2, 4; analogy with the British Indian Corps, 191n. 18; and the media, 74–76; and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, 298, 327n. 9; railroads and, 70; rifle musket in, 28–29; tactics, 27–28 American Legion, 269 American Psychiatric Association, 313–314 Amiens, battle of, 216 Amritsar Massacre, 79 Andrews, Private, 116 Anglo-Boer War, 78, 80 Antietam, battle of, 28–29 “ANZAC myth,” 83 Arab-Israeli Wars, 91. See also Lebanon, Israeli invasion of (1982); Six-Day War, Israeli; Yom Kippur/ Ramadan War Archidamus, 2 Armaments and History, 7 Army Welfare Scheme, 109 Arnold, General Henry, 256 Artillery: air spotting for, 224; Amiens, battle of, 216; and battlefield alienation , 3; assault on Drocourt-Queant Switch Line, 223–224, 226, 230; First World War, 214–215, 219, 220, 223–224, 226, 230; photography and film, 76–77; Somme bombardment , 196; in Yom Kippur/Ramadan War, 53 Atomic weapons, 8, 48. See also Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Nuclear weapons Australia, 83 Australian Corps, 129 Austro-Prussian War (1866), 70 B-52 bomber, 51–52 Bahádur, Rána Jodha Jang, 178 Bairnsfather, Bruce, 144 Baldwin, Stanley, and bombing threat to Britain, 242 Balloons, military, 10 Baluchis. See Indian Corps Barnett, Correlli, 200–201 “Baroque technology,” 59 Barratt forcing jack, 36 Bataan, 86 B’ath Party: claims to unify Iraq, 355; intelligence, 339; Iran seeks destruction of, 343; and the military, 337–338, 341–342, 346, 353; opposition to, 355–357; as a source of military weakness, 361; purge of, 343–344; takeover of Iraq, 337 Bathing: in the First World War, 148 Battle of the Somme, The (film), 76, 159, 197 Bean, C. E. W., 83 Beckett, Ian, 194, 207, 208n. 1 Bell Aircraft Company, 256 Bell, Rieves, 270 Bellamy, Christopher, 58 Bismarck, Otto von, 81 Black experience in World War II, 13, 263; as birth of the American civil rights movement, 264–265, 280–281, 282, 283–285; black and white cooperation in battle, 272–274; black patriotism , 278; black rejection of Jim Crow system, 265; changes black outlook, 265–266, 275–276, 282–283; differences between black and white experiences, 267–268; diversity of black experience, 268; enjoyment of service in, 267–268; fosters interracial understanding, 271; humiliation of blacks in, 268–269, 274–275, 283; interracial friendships, 272; motives for serving, 277–278, 281–282; reaction to lack of societal change upon return home, 279–280; segregation in the armed forces, 267, 272, 274; status compared to German prisoners, 275; training, 270–271, 272; value of oral accounts, 264, 267, 277, 283–284; violence toward blacks; 270–271, 274; violent racial conflicts, 270–271, 273, 288n. 18; war alters societal expectations, 281–283; white attitude toward, 266, 269–273, 275–276 Black Watch Regiment, 116, 188–189 Blackett, P. M. S., 245, 248 Bliokh, I. S. See Bloch, Jan Bloch, Jan, 8 Blockade, 203 Blunden, Edmund, 199 Boer War. See Anglo-Boer War Bonaparte, Napoleon, 214, 232 Borodino, 29 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 85 British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 198, 211–212, 215, 216; airpower in, 20; casualties, 231; as a formidable instrument , 215; leisure, 140–163; limits of technology, 235–236; morale of in First World War, 105–131; sophistication of techniques, 227, 236; use of combined arms attacks, 235–236. See also First World War British Journal of Psychology, 89 British Thomson-Houston Company, 251–253, 255 Brodie, Bernard, 48 Brothels. See Prostitution Brusilov Offensive, 203 “Bullpup.” See EM-2 “Bullpup” assault rifle Buxton, Nigel, 199 Byng, General Julian, 217, 220 C-130, 51–52 Cable News Network (CNN), 95 Cambodia, 51 Canal du Nord, 223, 225, 228–229 Cavalry, 202, 216–217, 221–222, 228, 230–231, 236 Centurion tank, 21 Chaplin, Charlie, 159 Charteris, John, 123 Chassepot breechloaders, 31 Chasseurs à Pied, 27, 38 index 386 Chechen Wars, 14; as asymmetrical warfare, 373; Chechen...