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

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CONTENTS ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Meaning of War in a Technological Age 1 Geoffrey Jensen part i: Technology and the Military: On and Off the Battlefield 1. Infantry Armament and the Perception of Tactical Need, 1789–1918 19 Paddy Griffith 2. Technology, Industry, and War, 1945–1991 42 Warren Chin 3. The Impact of Communications and the Media on the Art of War since 1815 66 Stephen Badsey part ii: The Myriad Faces of Total War 4. The Morale of the British Army on the Western Front, 1914–18: A Case Study in the Importance of the “Human Factor” in Twentieth-Century Total War 105 G. D. Sheffield 5. Not All Beer and Skittles? Everyday Life and Leisure on the Western Front 140 Chris McCarthy 6. The Indian Corps on the Western Front: A Reconsideration 167 Robert McLain vii 7. The Somme in British History 194 Brian Bond 8. The Elusive Victory: The BEF and the Operational Level of War, September 1918 211 Niall J. A. Barr 9. Scientists at War: The Development of Radar and Jet Propulsion in Britain 239 Eric Bobo 10. War and Black Memory: World War II and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement 263 Neil R. McMillen part iii: The Nuclear Age: Myriad Faces of Limited War 11. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: The Legacy of War 295 Andrew Wiest, Leslie P. Root, and Raymond M. Scurfield 12. Iraq: A Third-World Superpower? 333 Sean McKnight 13. Russia and Warfare in the Postindustrial Age 365 Michael Orr contributors 381 index 385 contents viii ...