The quoted chapter connects the spread of gunpowder, high explosives, mechanization, state growth, recruitment, funding, and logistics across several centuries. Its central omission is naval development, even though fleets often have to adopt demanding technologies before armies do. A broad history of warfare can still miss the institutions that accelerated engineering change.
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Why a history of technological warfare needs navies
A review of The Engineering Revolution praises its account of gunpowder and industrial warfare but criticizes the near absence of naval development.