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1 The Effect of Industrial Revolution on Warfare
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Industrial/technical change affected war outcome more than finances
- War's emphasis was placed on wining fast instead of long-term mobilization + revenue => CLAIM rending finances less important
Modern technology increased the rate of fire + created the invention of light field artillery.
- Prevented the indigenous people from fighting back using the old technology
- European seapower could extend inland, and eventually lead to the Opium War
- Some in the middle east was able to adopt the European fighting technique, but China, for instance, could not
- The "gunpower gap" created that nations would have hundreds of times the capacity to fight compared to they did before