Technology and doctrine
What Technology and doctrine means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Radios and the internal combustion engine shaped German military planning in the 1930s, while Blitzkrieg developed through debate and experimentation rather than as a single, fully formed doctrine before 1939.
Artillery before 1914 shaped both plans, each side's guns reflecting and reinforcing its plan.
Topics that use Technology and doctrine
- Paper 3, Option 37.1: The changing nature of warfare, 1859–1991: perception and reality - 2 Technology of defence: machine guns, smokeless powder and artillery, c1900–16 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 37.1: The changing nature of warfare, 1859–1991: perception and reality - 3 Radios, the internal combustion engine and mobile warfare, 1917–1940 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- Command and control
- Combined arms integration
- Combined arms warfare
- Defensive versus offensive planning
- Doctrine and technology
- Perception versus reality in pre-1914 planning
- Smokeless propellants and machine guns
- Technology and stalemate
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