Volume 53, Number 20 · December 21, 2006
Conspicuous Proliferation
By William H. McNeill
War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today
by Max Boot
Gotham, 624 pp., $35.00
War Made New begins with a crisp introduction, sketching four revolutions in warfare since 1500 around which Max Boot chose to organize his book. It ends in a fog of acronyms for weapons still on the drawing boards, uncertainty about future military revolutions, and 'The Danger of Too Much Change—and Too Little.' In between Boot found many persuasive things to say about how changes in military technology and management affected the course of European and world history, illustrating each of his military revolutions with detailed accounts of three specific battles or campaigns.
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