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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Someone" data-source="post: 2304205" data-attributes="member: 5656">I´ve read that too: It´s an entertaining read, and makes good points. Many of them have been already discussed, but the book´s main theme is: the gun or the cannon alone won´t make much of a difference: it´s not like the mad scientist from the comics who had just invented a Death Ray and threatens to destroy the world´s main cities if he´s not paid a billion trillion dollars. A feudal society, with competing nobles with limited resources, couldn´t have used the new technology to it´s fullest. Only those countries on the verge of becoming modern estates, instead of purely feudal societies, could afford them. The book describes how the changes in war technology causes changes in society, and how them in turn allows the development of new tech.</blockquote>