History
Max Boot
The Weapons That Changed the World
US Department of Defense adviser Max Boot on the four military revolutions that changed the gatekeepers of world history.
Lesson Plan
- Lesson Length : 22 Lessons ㆍ 2 hours 49 miutes
- Language : 한국어, English, 简体中文, Spanish, French
500 years of the history of warfare as seen through the advancement of weaponry.
Wristwatches, canned food, sunglasses, computers, digital cameras, GPS, drones, microwaves… All of these inventions we use daily were actually developed during wartime. In his lecture “Weapons That Changed History”, Max Boot, who looks at humankind’s technological advancements through the frame of innovations in war, weapons, and armed forces, introduces how technology developed alongside war, changing the hegemonic order.
Max Boot outlines how European nations became global dominators post-Gunpowder Revolution by adopting new weaponry. He then discusses the development of rifles and modern military systems following the First Industrial Revolution, significantly altering warfare dynamics, culminating in WWII innovations like tanks and fighter planes.
Boot transitions from WWII to detailing how the U.S. rose to global prominence, embracing information technology to innovate in weaponry. He concludes by reflecting on current conflicts such as the Russia-Ukraine war and the implications for future military technologies and strategies.
Full Bio
Max Boot
- Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the US Council on Foreign Relations
- Consultant to the US Department of Defense
- Foreign-affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times
- Author of Savage Wars of Peace (2002)
- Author of War Made New (2007)
Max Boot is an American historian and military expert. He has written foreign-affairs editorials for The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He was named one of “the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy.”
Max Boot usually writes about militaries and wars around the world and is the author of Savage Wars of Peace as well as War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History. He gives lectures at the US Army War College and the Command and General Staff College. He is currently a consultant to the US Department of Defense and a Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the US Council on Foreign Relations.
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