The 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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672520508
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Co
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

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.