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- Title
Technology, “Machine Age” Warfare, and the Military Use of Dogs, 1880–1918.
- Authors
Phillips, Gervase
- Abstract
Many military historians have emphasised technological innovation as the defining characteristic of modern “machine age” warfare. This paradigm ignores the central roles that animals have played in twentieth-century wars and fails to recognise that the scale of their exploitation has actually escalated in modernity, largely in response to technological innovation. In short, the military employment of animals on a massive scale is as much a defining characteristic of modern warfare as is mechanisation. Here, the example of the establishment of permanent, regular military dog units, for use in “civilised” warfare, from the 1880s onwards is used to illustrate this point.
- Subjects
WAR use of dogs; MILITARY technology; MECHANIZED warfare; HISTORY of war; RICHARDSON, Edwin H.; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Military History, 2018, Vol 82, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
0899-3718
- Publication type
Article