Innovations.

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Still further with a list as extracted from: "The Reader's Companion to Military History".

"The Most Important Military Innovations"

A list as compiled by  John F. Guilmatin, PhD.

* Copper-headed mace.

* War-horse.

* Wheel.

* Composite bow.

* Gunpowder.

* Full-rigged ship.

* Military maps.

* Steam power/propulsion.

* Rifled musket.

* Quick-firing artillery.

* Internal combustion engine.

* Radio and radar.

* Computers and transistors.

* Nuclear weapons and nuclear power.

THE RIFLED MUSKET FIRING A CONOIDAL BULLET THAT MOST SIGNIFICANT AND IMPORTANT MILITARY INNOVATION OF ALL  TIME? RAPIDITY OF ACCURATE FIRE AT LONGER RANGE THE CASUALTIES AS A PERCENTAGE OF BATTLEFIELD PARTICIPANTS CAUSED BY SUCH A WEAPON WITHOUT PARALLEL.

According to and in the opinion of one acknowledged weapons authority I am familiar with, the Roman gladius and the reflex sight the two most important military technological innovations of the last two-thousand years!!

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