Timeline for Explosive Ordinance Yield Over History
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| May 10, 2018 at 22:59 | history | edited | Lars Bosteen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
typos, phrasing
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| Jun 6, 2012 at 14:50 | comment | added | Steven Drennon | Could you please clarify your question? Are you asking about the yield of explosive devices over time, or the effectiveness of firearms in controlling crowds throughout time? Explosive ordnance would not be used for crowd control (normally), so the two seem to be at odds with one another. Please clean it up to be more specific or break it out into two separate questions. | |
| May 17, 2012 at 10:13 | comment | added | Russell | Wow, I never though of this before. But I'm not entirely sure that this is true; Guerrilla warfare originates from the napoleonic period, and was ultimately successful. Of corse, this could just be an outlier. | |
| May 15, 2012 at 20:56 | comment | added | quant_dev | It's quite easy to obtain lots of weaponry which would permit you to slaughter your population. What is difficult is to suffer the consequences of such massacres. Weaponry doesn't help you when your Swiss bank accounts get frozen. | |
| May 15, 2012 at 18:34 | answer | added | T.E.D.♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 15, 2012 at 11:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackHistory/status/202356630195675136 | ||
| May 15, 2012 at 2:02 | comment | added | jfrankcarr | If you have access to Netflix they have a number of good shows on this topic like Lock N' Load with R. Lee Ermey and Weaponology. Of course, they're on a general, entertainment, level but can give you some basic info. | |
| May 15, 2012 at 1:57 | comment | added | Samuel Russell | This question is difficult if not impossible to answer, due to the difficulties of acquiring long term statistical series. Moreover, raw ordinance equivalence doesn't account for changes in deployment, tactics and training. I would suggest looking at the early modern conception of the "military revolution," where Tercios suddenly destroyed the centrality of heavy cavalry, and star forts replaced curtain walls. | |
| May 14, 2012 at 20:40 | history | asked | BrotherJack | CC BY-SA 3.0 |