Industrial warfare

Since the beginning of human confrontation, men used products of technology to confront each other in conflicts and wars. Invention of sward, bow and arrow, gunpowder and other further technological inventions changed wars throughout the history, but invention of an airplane changed it dramatically creating an airpower. When we look at the airpower today, we can define it as a use of all available relevant technology for commanders to use in air, space, and cyberspace. That definition is…

LeMay Thesis Major General Curtis LeMay’s role as the commander of the XXI Bomber Command influenced the victory against Japan by his ultimate success in the areas of strategic, operational and tactical levels of warfare. Without LeMay’s innovation and gallantry the United States’ air warfare tactics would have continued to be ineffective against the Japanese homeland. LeMay’s focus on the Pacific theater of operation while commanding led to the largest and most effective air raid of the war. By…

A paradigm shift is a concept established by Thomas Kuhn, a philosopher and physician as a dramatic change in the basic beliefs of humankind. Some examples of paradigm shifts in history are the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution, both which drastically changed the human notion of the world. Aside from the two listed above, there are also many other events and inventions that shifted the status quo. One of the most significant paradigm shifts in the twentieth century is the…

Zombie fascination after World War II The recent fascination with the apocalypse and zombie scenarios can be traced back to the advent of nuclear warfare during World War II, as argued by Stanford literary scholar Angela Becerra Vidergar. After the destructive events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the horrific violence of the Holocaust and World War II, human collective visions of the future were drastically altered and the disturbing realisation of human capacity for mass violence was brought…

The Air Tactical School (ACTS) created an industrial web theory that was influenced by WWII air campaigns. Energy and transportation targets were the focus of the industrial web theory stating that if these areas are destroyed, it would break the enemy’s ability to create products for war and would stop supply chains. However, this theory did not examine…

The Industrial Revolution that occurred in Great Britain throughout 1760 to 1830, was a time in which many advancements in technology and industry occurred. However, the repercussions of the revolution are often overlooked, due to the focus on the positive elements. Certain advancements were made to the agricultural industry, the process in which textiles were made was improved, the growth of the mining industry occured, iron products were created, basic transportation such as railroads were…

Over 220,000 human lives were destroyed by that initial decision to engage in atomic warfare (Yamazaki). The United States, however, tends to dissociate itself from its responsibility in the amount of innocent lives affected by such a pivotal moment in our collective history. In hindsight, we can recognize the lack of humility and humanity…

All through the Cold War, the United States depended on nuclear weapons to not only avert an attack by the Soviet Union and its allies but also to prevent the eruption of a global war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Cold War rivalry drew the United States into a drawn out engagement with world affairs, unprecedented in the country’s history, that proceeds to the present day. The stakes of the Cold War were perilously high. Nuclear war, which jeopardized the survival of human…

the dangers speculated above. Human beings are continuously limiting the chances of their survival in future by destroying the environment which sustains life. The environment provides food, materials for shelter, and clothing in addition to other industrial inputs. The uncontrolled exploitation of these resources…

It’s interesting to see the progression of weapons from the early beginnings to now. Most people believe that chemical warfare agents were first introduced during the World Wars. Interestingly enough, the concepts of these agents were developed as early as 600 B.C. They weren’t known as chemical warfare agents however; the techniques that were used mimic the action of these agents that are being used today. During the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, the Spartan army used a mixture…