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Military Technology. Selected Themes. “Leave the Generals Alone”. “A continuation of political activity by other means.” Carl von Clausewitz. Athena and Ares. Athena: goddess of Wisdom Usually portrayed as warrior Represents rational, purposeful action Ares: god of War (Combat) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Military Technology
Selected Themes
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“Leave the Generals Alone”
“A continuation of political activity by other means.”
Carl von Clausewitz
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Athena and AresAthena: goddess of Wisdom• Usually portrayed as warrior• Represents rational, purposeful actionAres: god of War (Combat)• Represents irrational action for own sake• Represents brutality of combat
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Pre-gunpowder castles in Europe High curtain walls - defense against scaling Walls could be thin - curtain walls Crenellations - shields for archers Machicolations - "bay windows" Round towers Strong defensive advantage
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Typical Pre-Cannon
Fort, 1200’s, Istanbul
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Pre-Gunpowder Fort, Turkey
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Bronze Cannon, Istanbul
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Early Mortar, Germany
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Wooden Cannon, Germany
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Cannons and Castles
Early firearms crude and weak (1300's) By 1400's, firearms were more powerful Curtain walls thickened, often faced with
timber or earth Crenellations and Machicolations removed
(voluntarily or by cannon fire) Moats widened
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Iron Cannonballs Iron is twice as dense as stone and doesn’t
shatter as easily. Iron cannonballs caused early cannon to
burst due to the higher pressures in the barrels
By 1450, better gunpowder and metallurgy made iron cannonballs usable
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Iron Cannonballs
• Curtain walls replaced by lower earthen structures
Round towers modified to triangular to remove "dead spot," then to arrowhead shape or "Oreillon."
Final result by 1500 - "star fort."
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The Blind Spot
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Oreillons
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Star Fort
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From Castle to Fort: Wurzburg, Germany
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Fortification, Vatican
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Star Fort
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Fort McHenry, Maryland
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Fort Monroe, Virginia
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The Arms Trade, 1500
Freelance engineers often went from town to town designing forts
Same engineers were frequently hired in wartime as consultants by attackers.
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Fortified Town,
Holland
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Fortified Town, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Fort Pulaski, Georgia
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Fort Pulaski, Georgia
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Cannon are no Use if They Don’t Hit Anything
• Gunners Quadrant, 1537 Triangulation-Frisius, 1533 Plane-table, 1551 Cross-staff for elevation Theodolite - Leonard Digges, 1571, first
efficient surveying instrument: horizontal and vertical circles.
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Artillery Survey Tools, 1700
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Stimuli to map-making Artillery technology Henry VIII seizes church lands, 1536 -
stimulus to surveying in England Copper engraving makes better map printing
possible Christopher Saxton - national atlas of
England, 1579 - first in W. Europe. Maps often made for military purposes,
frequently classified
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Feeding the Troops Early Armies subsisted by foraging for food Problems with local population (Even in
WWII there were famines in Holland and Greece caused by Nazi requisition of food supplies)
Impractical with large armies Armies had to keep moving because they
exhausted local food sources
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Napoleon offers prizes for better food preservation
Nicholas Appert, ca. 1800. Put food in champagne bottles, boiled
In 1810 he was awarded a prize of 12,000 francs on condition he publish his method
British introduce metal cans Cans in use by 1812 for military and
exploration
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Cans Become Widespread
Cans on sale in shops by 1830. Originally upper-class status symbols. (A single can cost 2/3 of a week's rent on a house)
• No can openers yet! Cans had to opened with a chisel.
• Nobody knew yet why the process worked
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The First Modern War
The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865)
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Technological weapons and innovations
Telecommunications Photojournalism Aerial observation (Balloons) Submarines (C.S.S. Hunley) Steam and iron-clad ships Railroads Rapid-fire weapons
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C.S.S. Pioneer, New Orleans
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C.S.S. Hunley
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Other Modern Elements War of maneuver rather than pitched
battles; strategic planning First major war in which balance of power
described in terms of technology War telescoped 19th century into four
years: – Early battles would have been familiar to
Napoleon, – Ended with W.W.I style trench warfare.
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I fear our people do not yet realize the magnitude of the struggle they have entered upon, nor its probable duration, and the sacrifices it will impose upon them... Their [the Union's] resources are almost without limit...They have also a navy that in a little while will blockade our ports and cut us off from the rest of the world. They have nearly all the workshops and skilled artisans of the country....We have no ships, few arms, and few manufacturers. We will not succeed until the financial power of the North is completely broken, and this can occur only at the end of a long and bloody war. The conflict will be mainly in Virginia. She will become the Flanders of America before this war is over...I wish I could talk to every man, woman and child in the State now, and impress them with these views.
---Robert E. Lee
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The Civil War
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The Last Ancient War
World War I (1914-1918)
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WWI Technology quite advanced
Radio Airplanes Tanks Chemical Weapons Machine Guns Submarines Radio
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Total failure to revise tactics to meet new technology
• Mass charges against machine gun fire. • Feeling that one more push or more willpower
would earn victory. • Allies lost more men on the Somme in one day
than U.S. lost in Korea.• Desperate attempts by soldiers in field to redefine
old concepts of courage and valor. • Cavalry charges• Static trench warfare