ABSTRACT
As long as men have been concerned with problems of political and administrative organization, they have been faced with the influences technologic change exerts on their organization. This has been well illustrated where the military arts of war are concerned. From the days of the earliest weapon improvements, technologic advance has meant eventual disaster for outmoded policies and organization. Throughout history the competition among politically organized groups, both large and small, has been intense enough to alter existing organizational and administrative forms when new ways of waging war emerged. Often the administrative change has come in the form of adjustments within an existing pattern, as for the recent administrative and policy adaptations in many countries to the use of nuclear explosives. Often the change has been revolutionary, as where technically inferior peoples have been conquered by more powerful groups and thereupon subjected to outside control. In whatever form, the influence of technologic change in the military arts on political organization and administrative institutions has been direct and inescapably manifest. 1
