Some fights might even have been motivated by the sheer fun of taking on an enemy and overcoming him. There would no doubt have been fights over living space, access to resources such as food water, females, and precedence. Under such circumstances early human warfare might perhaps have resembled the kind of strife we witness among chimpanzees. He can hit-a purpose for which his arms are much better suited than those of any other animal-and bite, but he can hardly kill he can choke, but doing so takes time, and few people are so strong that they could not be overpowered by a few others. After all, without technology, if only in the form of sticks and stones, man’s ability to kill his own kind is extremely limited. Indeed, without technology, there would probably have been no war. For the conference report, videotapes, and other papers, see War and technology have always been linked very closely. Core support for the History Institute is provided by The Annenberg Foundation support for this weekend conference was provided by W. This essay is based on his address at FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers, “Teaching Military History: Why and How,” held at the First Division Museum in Wheaton, IL and co-sponsored by the Cantigny First Division Foundation. [Martin van Creveld is Professor, Institute of Arts and Letters, Hebrew University and author of Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Cambridge, 2004).
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