Comments - The future of war is the future of society
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Military technology is changing rapidly, and we're going to have to change with it.
Gunpowder as a technology was brought with the Mongols to Europe. In addition, you should read a book by Tonio Andrade called "The Gunpowder Age" which goes into why the Europeans, despite getting gunpowder later, were able to build the best cannons and guns. His basic thesis is that Europe had terrible walls in comparison to China and this caused China to not develop the gun type weapons earlier. Chinese walls in the year 200 AD were, as a matter of course, 5 to 10 meters wide, of a similar height, with a trapezoidal cross section made by stacking pounded earth and then cladding the…
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