Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Lecture Four - Industrialization of War


When I was in college and studying History, I always think that War is necessary; because in my point of view, It always bring us bloodshed, raise the enmity between country and nation. The important things is, it always occurs because of one’s desire or ambition which never being satisfied. But in a manner, War change our history also let us to have advancement in some area.


Weapons are what make human muscles formidable; and from the dawn of civilization it took specialized craftsmen to make weapons out of metal. In the course of time the amount of metal used by warriors tended to increase; and the size of armies may also have grown greater-though with such ups and downs that no very definite growth pattern here emerges before the wars of the French Revolution.

Until that time, throughout ancient, medieval and early modern history, however, the industrial basis of war making remained unimportant in the sense that whenever the prevailing weapons-system remained constant the supply of arms seldom constituted a limiting factor in the actual conduct of operations, or in deciding victory and defeat.


Because the reason of war, because of the way that people discover to make new weapons. Many new material and new making method have been introduce. These except for increasing the quality of weapons, also bringing many new ideas in to art and designs. Also because of the Loos’s essay “Ornament and crime” ideas still hit at that time. Therefore, most of the designs and architectures of that time are simply and not much of decorations. Furthermore, the feeling of those outcome of that time, always give me a cold feeling, heavy metal and glass has been used. Just feeling cold and sometimes not friendly at all.


Although war can give us some new inspire, war is always let us feeling cold, disappointing, and lost of hope. If sadly we will having another World War in the future, Maybe some one can raise a style which can stop the War, and let people to awake from ambition, I think it will be a nice style.

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