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== See also ==
History of weapons
Big Science
Funding of science
Historiography of science
History of radar
History of science and technology
History of technology
Military-industrial complex
Military science
Military technology
Military medicine
Military Wireless Museum in the Midlands

== External links ==

== Notes and references ==

== Further reading ==
Andrade, Tonio. The gunpowder age: China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history (Princeton University Press, 2017).
Barrett, Ann H., and Armand Vincent Cardello. Military food engineering and ration technology (DEStech Publications, 2012) online
Bolia, Robert, et al. "A history lesson on the use of technology to support military decision making and command and control." in Decision making in complex environments (CRC Press, 2017) pp. 191–200. online
Bousquet, Antoine. "A revolution in military affairs?: Changing technologies and changing practices of warfare." in  Technology and World Politics (Routledge, 2017) pp. 165–181. [1]
Burmaoglu, Serhat, and Ozcan Sarıtas. "Changing characteristics of warfare and the future of Military R&D." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 116 (2017): 151–161. online
Chin, Warren. "Technology, war and the state: past, present and future." International Affairs 95.4 (2019): 765–783. online
DeVries, Kelly Robert, Kelly DeVries, and Robert Douglas Smith. Medieval military technology ( University of Toronto Press, 2012) online.
Evangelista, Matthew. Innovation and the arms race: How the United States and the Soviet Union develop new military technologies (Cornell University Press, 2020). online
Gabriel, Richard A. Between flesh and steel: A history of military medicine from the middle ages to the war in Afghanistan (Potomac Books, 2013) online.
Horowitz, Michael C., and Shira Pindyck. "What is a military innovation and why it matters." Journal of Strategic Studies (2022): 1-30. online
Kuo, Kendrick. "Military Innovation and Technological Determinism: British and US Ways of Carrier Warfare, 1919–1945." Journal of Global Security Studies 6.3 (2021): ogaa046.
McNeill, William H. The pursuit of power: Technology, armed force, and society since AD 1000 (University of Chicago Press, 1982), a major scholarly survey online
Nicholson, Helen J. Medieval warfare: theory and practice of war in Europe, 300-1500 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) online.
Piehler, G. Kurt, ed. Encyclopedia of military science (Sage Publications, 2013).
Purton, Peter Fraser. The Medieval Military Engineer: From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century (Boydell & Brewer, 2018).
Turchin, Peter, et al. "Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution." PloS one 16.10 (2021): e0258161. online
Van Creveld, Martin. Transformation of war (Simon and Schuster, 2009). online