War in the Age of Technology Myriad Faces of Modern Armed Conflict

"Technology has been central to war from the Greeks to the present, from Archidamus, who reacted with alarm to the appearance of a weapon that could shoot darts through the air, to today's U.S. armed forces, which see a revolution in military affairs around every corner. Jensen and Wiest provide a highly readable yet sophisticated analysis of technology's place in modern warfare that incorporates industrial, political, military, social, and psychological aspects. It is a model of erudition and scholarship." - Holger H. Herwig,University of Calgary "It is the product of an unusual intellectual matrix." (Technology and Culture) "Both general readers and military specialists . . . will find much that is informative and thoughtful in this generally superior collection of essays." (The Historian)

Geoffrey Jensen is John Biggs '30 Cincinnati Chair in Military History at Virginia Military Institute. Andrew Wiest is Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of War and Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is co-editor of War in the Age of Technology: Myriad Faces of Modern Armed Combat (NYU Press, 2001) and author or co-author of numerous books, including Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land: The Vietnam War Revisited, Atlas of World War II, and The Vietnam War, 1959-1975. He lives in Hattiesburg, MS.