Evolution of War-Making Capacity Throughout Human History

Source

* Book: Social Development. Ian Morris. Stanford University, 2010.

URL = http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~lyamane/ianmorris.pdf

Statistics

Chapter 10: War-Making Capacity

10.1 Measuring war-making capacity 136

10.2 Western war-making capacity 138

10.2.1  The 20th-century transformation     138     
10.2.2  The European military revolution, 1500-1800 CE   144     
10.2.3  From Caesar to Suleiman, 1-1500 CE    148     
10.2.4   Early warfare, 3000-1 BCE      153   

10.3 Eastern war-making capacity 156

10.3.1  The East-West military balance in 2000 CE    156     
10.3.2  The East’s modern military revolution, 1850-2000 CE  159     
10.3.3  War-making capacity in the gunpowder era, 1500-1850 CE  161     
10.3.4 Imperial China and the nomad anomaly, 200 BCE-1500 CE 164     
10.3.5  Early China, 1600-200 BCE      169