id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt bg257d29f3x Nathaniel Huston Silver Bullets, Subjugation, and Adaptation: Why Some Militaries Thrive and Others Falter in the Face of Technological Change 1904 .txt text/plain 349 11 30 By examining the development of air power between World War I and the end of World War II, this work seeks to answer the following questions: Under what conditions can technological change contribute to a disruption in military affairs, and how and why do militaries fall short of achieving them? I argue, by contrast, that militaries vary systematically in how they process change and how they perceive and interact with technology, and that these variations help explain how and why some militaries are able to exploit technological discontinuities while others struggle. cache/bg257d29f3x.txt txt/bg257d29f3x.txt