The Military Revolution and Revolutions in Military Affairs / / ed. by Mark Fissel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Fissel, Mark Charles,; Hweon Kang, Hyeok,; Kazakou, Aliaksandr,; Lee, Wayne E.,; Mandeles, Mark D.,; O’Neill, James,; Shirogorov, Vladimir,; Vicente, João,
• HerausgeberIn: Fissel, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: De Gruyter Studies in Military History , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 471 p.)

The Military Revolution and Revolutions in Military Affairs updates two central debates in military history--the one surrounding the concept of military revolution, and the one on military affairs--whilst advancing original research in both fields. Only a handful of publications consider the military revolution and the RMA in tandem. This book breaks new ground conceptually and appeals to an exceptionally large and diverse readership. Comparative revisionist studies of the military revolution and RMA better enable us to comprehend the historical continuum and reveal the new RMA for what it is. And for what it is shortly to become. This book presents original contributions within the "epicentre" of the military revolution debate, the 1500s, with an emphasis on gunpowder revolution (offensively and defensively). The connections with the Revolution in Military Affairs are then made explicit by scholars, a practitioner, and an analyst, with an emphasis on airborne lethal autonomous weapons systems. This is a chronologically broad and unique methodological approach to a historical debate that begs for clarification as we enter an era where killer robots will almost certainly take from humans their monopoly on violence.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Difference in an Age of Parity: Technology and Global Military History -- Gunpowder Revolution in the East of Europe and the Battle of Orsha, 1514 -- To Stop a Cannonball: Ottoman Fortress Design and Comparing Military Revolutions, 1350–1730 -- Firearms and Fieldworks: Military Transformation and the End of Gaelic Ireland -- A True Beast of Land and Water: The Gunpowder Mutation of Amphibious Warfare -- From the Gunpowder Age Military Revolution to a Revolution in Military Affairs -- To Dream the Impossible Dream: Feasibility of Deliberate Government Guidance of Revolutions in Military Affairs -- The Dilemma of Human Interference in War: The Coming Revolution of Autonomous Air Warfare -- Appendix: On the Cover Illustration -- List of Contributors -- Index