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and settlers, like Washington and Jefferson, who simply would
not think in terms of mink. Thus the War of Independence was
deeply involved in media and staple rivalries. Any new medium,
by its acceleration, disrupts the lives and investments of whole
communities. It was the railway that raised the art of war to
unheard-of intensity, making the American Civil War the first
major conflict fought by rail, and causing it to be studied and
admired by all European general staffs, who had not yet had an
opportunity to use railways for a general bloodletting.
War is never anything less than accelerated technological
change. It begins when some notable disequilibrium among
existing structures has been brought about by inequality of
rates of growth. The very late industrialization and unification
of Germany had left her out of the race for staples and colonies
for many years. As the Napoleonic wars were technologically a