Weapon of Choice: Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation

by Matthew Ford

This book examines Western military technological innovation through the lens of developments in small arms during the twentieth century. These weapons have existed for centuries, appear to have matured only incrementally and might seem unlikely technologies for investigating the trajectory of military-technical change. Their relative simplicity, however, makes it easy to use them to map patterns of innovation within the military-industrial complex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190623861
• ISBN13: 9780190623869
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"