War, industrial revolution and technoscientific development

Abstract

The relationship between technological and industrial development and the forms of warfare is analyzed. An overview is outlined of the news brought by the industrial revolution with direct reflections on war and military organizations. It discusses how technological advantages - such as carrying a rifle backfire instead of the muzzle and using smokeless gunpowder - have decisively interfered with the outcome of war and consequently in international ordering. The approximation or even the overlap between innovations with “military ends” and those of “civil interest” is illustrated. The “chemical revolution” made it possible to produce synthetic dyes and medicines and to manufacture explosives and poisonous gases. The relationship between war and the transport revolution is also analyzed, a phenomenon that had a great impact on the conceptions of space and time. Carrying more and more troops, supplies, equipment and supplies would promote new.