Engines of Destruction in the Great War: Artillery, Society, War Finance, and the Emergence of the Total State

Hunt Tooley, Revisionist History of War Conference, 2025

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy, World History

05/16/2025 T. Hunt Tooley

How did the state grow from Machiavelli to World War I? Hunt Tooley reveals how artillery, arms dealers, and bankers turned war into profitable, prolonged carnage.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on May 16, 2025.

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