Evolution of Weapons and Warfare

by Trevor N. Dupuy

Book Overview

The Evolution of Weapons and Warfare is not only a historical study of mankind's most time-honored enterprise--war--but an excellent way to understand the potentiality of modern weapons, techniques, and technologies, and to realistically forecast how they will be applied in future wars. In this absorbing chronicle of the art of war, Colonel Dupuy examines the relationship between weapons and strategy--on land, on sea, and in the air--and discusses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306803844
• ISBN13: 9780306803840
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Shows the integration of weapons and new technology into warfare

Before reading this book, I suggest one read Edwin Tunis's book "Weapons: A Pictorial History" which focuses on the development of weapons per se. Dupuy's book takes it a step further, focusing on the integration of new weapons into the art of warfare. It is a comprehensive study of the effect of new weapons and technology on the logistics, tactics, and strategy of warfare. This is a good book. It is well written, easy to read, and gives one a good background into its subject matter. This book was written in 1980, during the cold war, so his predictions of the future are inaccurate. I am going to read this book again. So I gave it five stars. Additionally, I doubt if Dupuy was consulted about the cover of this 1990 reprint and probably knew one tank from another.