17/2/2017. IDIS: Seminar on DB Learning: Technology and War
DB Learning Seminar: Technology and War
Responsible: Professor Charalambos Papasotiriou
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DESCRIPTION:
The relationship "Technology-War" will be analyzed, as it evolved over the centuries, from primitive warfare between tribal societies, to warfare between industrialized societies. Scientific and technological progress, although slow and gradual in the 17th-19th centuries, was dramatically impressive in the 20th century. The development of ironclad ships in the 1860s, the machine gun in the 1890s, the construction of aircraft and tanks in the 1920s-1930s, aircraft carriers and radar in the 1930s-1940s, atomic and nuclear weapons in the 1940s-1950s, as well as the conquest of space and the revolution in military affairs (RMA) from the 60s to the present, are some of the important technological applications that marked the evolution of military technologies. Each of these technological developments had revolutionary effects on the formation of military doctrine and the conduct of war.