This web page is an online version of the final paper. More information about the course is available at the instructor's web site . Introduction War has been a part of culture for thousands of years. As long as people have been living together in communities they have been fighting wars to protect those communities. War developed out of simple fighting when people realized that they could fight more effectively as organized groups.
Organization is the first part of the technology of war.
For the purpose of this repor t the technology of war will be defined as all of the organizations, weapons, tactics, inventions, and developments which one side uses to gain an advantage over or remove the advantage of an enemy in a war. Once people started organizing into armies, the y began to develop more effective methods of fighting to defeat their enemy with as little loss to themselves as possible. So began the progression of the technology of war. If one side developed a new advantage then the other side would develop something else to regain the advantage. This cycle of advantage counter advantage continued for thousands of years in small spurts.