H100 Argumentative Paper

Reading References

H101 RD: House, Jonathan M., Toward Combined Arms Warfare: A Survey of 20th-Century Tactics, Doctrine, and

Organization. Research Survey No. 2, pages 7–18. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press, August

1984.

H 101RB: War, Society, and the Structure of Military Revolution

Reading H101 RB Too Busy to Learn by Robert H. Scales House extract

H111RA: World War I—Birth of Combined Arms Warfare Reading H111RA The Dardanelles and Gallipoli

by William R. Griffiths

H101RD: War, Society, and the Structure of Military Revolution Past Revolutions, Future Transformations What can the history of revolutions in military affairs tell us about transforming the US military? by Richard O. Hundley

Argumentative Paper

Using examples from H100, explain how the convergence of “military revolutions” contributed to the costly and indecisive character of World War I.

The convergence of military revolutions leading up to World War I has always been a race to the finish for whoever had the latest and greatest technology to neutralize or destroy their opposition would remain on ahead as a powerful and recognized nation. Unfortunately, those who invented the technology would not always prosper from them; rather it was used to the advantage of who learned to leverage the concept or technology first.

Military revolutions throughout history have always proven to be the underlying source of paradigm shifts in war as well as who wins and who loses. Those who learned to leverage and exploit military technologies and concepts often came out on top, but ultimately both sides suffered great losses along the way and often disastrous. Much of these examples were in covered in the H100 block.

Military revolutions often involve a paradigm shift in nature and conduct of military operations. One of the most important developments was the adoption of linear formations. Not only did these smaller unit formations, based on Roman formations and only...