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Technology was transforming warfare by the beginning of the twentieth century. Although the military establishment still thought in terms of a battlefield where psychological factors maintained their importance, it nevertheless had to cope with technological innovation. The machine gun provides an instance of such a process.

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Herrero Pérez, J.V. (2017). The Machine Gun, 1899–1913. In: The Spanish Military and Warfare from 1899 to the Civil War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54747-3_4

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