Presented in person at the Linda Hall Library in association with the National WWI Museum and Memorial.
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More military technological change occurred between 1865 and 1918 than in the previous four millennia of warfare combined. One of the most important of these changes, and the one that became the greatest killer of World War I, was modern artillery. However, the dominance of artillery created a host of unforeseen consequences that ultimately contributed to the ugly attritional character of the Great War. The rise of artillery also forced the development of new sciences and concepts of war, fueled the evolution of other technologies, such as aviation and motor transportation, and drew the home and war fronts ever closer together.Â
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Richard Shawn Faulkner, PhD
Professor of Military History, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Dr. Richard S. Faulkner is a Professor of Military History and has taught in the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) since 2002. He served 23 years in the U.S. Army and commanded a tank company in the 1st Armored Division during Operation Desert Storm.Â
He is the author of The School of Hard Knocks: Combat Leadership in the American Expeditionary Forces (Texas A&M Press, 2012), which was the recipient of the Society for Military History's 2013 Distinguished Book Award. His second book, Pershing's Crusaders: The American Soldier in World War I (University Press of Kansas, 2017) received the World War I Association’s 2017 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize for the best work of history in English on World War One, the Organization of American Historians’ 2017 Richard W. Leopold Prize, and the Army Historical Foundation’s 2017 Excellence in U.S. Army History Book Award.
