Introduction

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When the West began its ascent to world supremacy in the sixteenth century, military institutions played a crucial role in its drive to power. Recent historical work suggests that the Western military framework has undergone cyclical periods of innovation beginning in the early fourteenth century and continuing to the present and that such periods have resulted in systemic and massive changes to the basic nature of warfare and the organizations that fight. The military history of the twentieth century indicates that this pattern has continued unbroken except that the periods between major innovations have been decreasing even as the complexity of innovation has increased.

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