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| | Reader's Companion to Military History - - Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The term technology, meaning the study of technics, appeared in the seventeenth century; before then, all was arts and crafts, passed on by apprenticeship. |
 | | But there is no reliable evidence for secret military technologies in the ancient, medieval, or classical worlds, save Greek fire in the middle centuries of the Byzantine Empire; winning weapons were available to all. |
 | | The competition to prevail on this electronic battlefield has produced an international arms race, military-industrial complexes in the United States and elsewhere, an unprecedented prominence for the military as a driver of civilian technology, and finally a search for dual-use technology that can serve both military and civilian purposes. |
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