القتال الصناعي

قاذفات القنابل الأمريكية بي-24 ليبريتور تحت التصنيع أثناء الحرب العالمية الثانية.

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الحرب
التاريخ العسكري
العصور

قبل التاريخ • القديمة • الوسيطة
المعاصرة المبكرة • الصناعية • الحديثة

مجالات المعارك

جوية • معلوماتية • برية • بحرية • فضائية

أسلحة

مدرعات • مدفعية • بيولوجية • سلاح الفرسان
كيماوية • إلكترونية • مشاة
نووية • نفسية

تكتيكات

استنزاف • فدائيون • مناورة
حصار • حرب شاملة • خنادق

استراتيجية

اقتصادية • كبرى • عملياتية

التنظيم

التشكيلات • الرتب • الوحدات

الإمداد

المعدات • الذخيرة • خطوط الامداد

القوائم

المعارك • القادة • العمليات
الحصارات • المنظرون • الحروب
جرائم الحرب • الأسلحة • الكتاب

القتال الصناعي Industrial warfare[1]، هو فترة في تاريخ القتال تمتد تقريباً من أوائل القرن 19 وبداية الثورة الصناعية حتى بداية عصر الذرة، والذي شهد ارتفاع في قدرة الدول على تشكيل وتعبئة جيوش وبحريات كبيرة عن طريق عملية التصنيع.

يتميز هذا العصر بالتجنيد العسكري الشامل، النقل السريع (في البداية على السكك الحديدية، ثم بواسطة البحر والجو)، الاتصالات التلغرافية واللاسلكية، ومفهوم الحرب الشاملة. من الناحية التكنولجية، فقد شهدت هذه الفترة استخدام البنادق المحشوة من الخلف ذات معدلات إطلاق عالية، المدفعية المحشوة من الخلف عالية السرعة، الأسلحة الكيماوية، الحرب المدرعة، السفن الحربية المدرعة، الغواصات، والطائرات.

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الحرب الشاملة

المصطلح صِيغ خلال الحرب العالمية الأولى بواسطة اريش لدندورف (في كتابه عام 1935 "الحرب الشاملة")، الذي دعا إلى تعبئة كاملة وخضوع جميع الموارد، بما في ذلك السياسات والنظم الاجتماعية في المجهود الحربي الألماني، كما أنه قد حان الوقت لخوض حرب حقيقية مع قسوة مطلقة.

هناك أسباب عدة لتصعيد الحروب في القرن التاسع عشر وكان السبب الرئيسي هو التصنيع. كما ارتفع رأس مال البلدان والموارد الطبيعية، وأصبحت بعض ملامح الحرب في طلبها للموارد واضحة أكثر من غيرها، وبالتالي أصبحت الحرب أكثر تكلفة بمرور السنين. وكان على الدولة الصناعية اكتساب الشهرة والمال ثم اختيار شدة الحرب التي ترغب بشنها.

Additionally, warfare was becoming more mechanized and required greater infrastructure. Combatants could no longer live off the land, but required an extensive support network of people behind the lines to keep them fed and armed. This required the mobilization of the home front. Modern concepts like propaganda were first used to boost production and maintain morale, while rationing took place to provide more war material.

The earliest modern example of total war was the American Civil War. Union generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman were convinced that, if the North was to be victorious, the Confederacy's strategic, economic, and psychological ability to wage war had to be definitively crushed. They believed that to break the backbone of the South, the North had to employ scorched earth tactics, or as Sherman called it, "Hard War". Sherman's advance through Georgia and the Carolinas was characterized by the widespread destruction of civilian supplies and infrastructure.[2] In contrast to later conflicts, the damage done by Sherman was almost entirely limited to property destruction. In Georgia alone, Sherman claimed he and his men had caused $100,000,000 in damages.[بحاجة لمصدر]


التجنيد

Soldiers engaged in trench warfare during the American Civil War.

Conscription is the compulsory enrollment of civilians into military service. Conscription allowed the French Republic to form La Grande Armée, what Napoleon Bonaparte called "the nation in arms", which successfully battled smaller, professional European armies.

Conscription, particularly when the conscripts are being sent to foreign wars that do not directly affect the security of the nation, has historically been highly politically contentious in democracies. For instance, during World War I, bitter political disputes broke out in Canada (see Conscription Crisis of 1917), Newfoundland, Australia and New Zealand (See Compulsory Military Training) over conscription. Canada also had a political dispute over conscription during World War II (see Conscription Crisis of 1944). Both South Africa and Australia put limits on where conscripts could fight in WWII. Similarly, mass protests against conscription to fight the Vietnam War occurred in several countries in the late 1960s.

In developed nations, the increasing emphasis on technological firepower and better-trained fighting forces, the sheer unlikelihood of a conventional military assault on most developed nations, as well as memories of the contentiousness of the Vietnam War experience, make mass conscription unlikely in the foreseeable future[بحاجة لمصدر].

Russia, as well as many smaller nations such as Switzerland, retain mainly conscript armies.

النقل

The advent of railroads (such as this one during the American Civil War) allowed armies to cover larger distances in shorter times while suffering minimal fatigue.

البري

البحري

الجوي

الاتصالات

التعبئة

القتال البري

الدبابة الأمريكية إم4 شرمان في القتال أثناء الحرب الكورية.

القتال البري هو قتال جرى على اليابسة، وهو النوع الأكثر شيوعاً من الحروب، كما أنها تشمل الكثير من أنواع الحروب، وتشمل هذه الحروب المناطق الحيوية في القطب الشمالي والجبال في العصر الصناعي الناجم من التطورات التكنولوجية المختلفة، مع كل الآثار الخاصة بهم.

Crimean War (1853–1856) saw the introduction of trench warfare, long-range artillery, railroads, the telegraph, and the rifle. The mechanized mass-destruction of enemy combatants grew ever more deadly. In WWI (1914–1918) machine-guns, barbed wire, chemical weapons, and land-mines entered the battlefield. The deadly stalemated trench-warfare stage was finally passed with the advent of the modern armored tank late in WWI.

One major trend involved the transition away massed infantry fire and human waves to more refined tactics. This became possible with the superseding of earlier weapons like the highly inaccurate musket.

التقدم التكنولوجي

قطعة مدفعية بريطانية في القتال أثناء معركة گاليپولي، 1915.

Rifling refers to the act of adding spiral grooves to the inside of the barrel of a firearm. The grooves would cause a projectile to spin as it traveled down the barrel, improving range and accuracy. Once rifling became easier and practical, a new type of firearm was introduced, the rifle. It gave combatants the ability to specifically target an enemy combatant, rather than have large numbers of combatants fire in a general direction. It effectively broke up groups of combatants into smaller more maneuverable units.

Artillery are large guns designed to fire large projectiles a great distance. Early artillery pieces were large and cumbersome with slow rates of fire. This reduced their use to sieges, by both defenders and attackers. With the advent of the industrial age and various technological advancements, lighter, yet powerful and accurate artillery pieces were produced. This gave rise to field artillery which were used on a tactical level to support troops.

Machine guns are fully automatic guns. In this era of warfare they only existed as mounted support weapons, as automatic firearms were not yet developed. Early machine guns as invented by Richard Gatling, were hand cranked but evolved into truly automatic machine guns by Maxim at the end of the era. Machine guns were valued for their ability to smash infantry formations, especially attacking enemy formations when they were dense. This, along with effective field artillery, changed tactics drastically.


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الدفاع الثابت

Static defenses evolved from the use of permanent fortifications that were direct descendants of medieval castles. As artillery improved in destructive power and penetrative ability, more modern fortifications were developed, using first thicker layers of stone, then concrete and steel. After naval artillery developed the turret – a moving cannon platform – land fortifications started to use this method as well. Between the World Wars, France built an "impregnable" underground steel and concrete fortification that ran the length of the German-French border. This Maginot Line failed to stop German tanks in 1940: they bypassed the fortifications by invading through neighboring Belgium.

المناورات الحربية

بدءاً من عام 1965، تمكن القادة من الدفع بأعداد كبيرة من القوات خلف خطوط العدو، في البداية بواسطة الطائرات وبعد ذلك بواسطة المروحيات.

قتال بحري

The sinking of the Cumberland by the Confederate ironclad Virginia in 1862 marked the beginning of the end for wooden warships.

المصفحات والمدرعات

In 1906 the British warship HMS Dreadnought became the first warship to have both a uniform main battery and steam turbine engines, creating a standard for warships that lasted until the 1940s.

حاملات الطائرات

In the 1940s aircraft carriers supplanted battleships as the centerpiece of the fleet. Here, American torpedo bombers prepare to take off during the Battle of Midway in 1942.


الغواصات


القتال الجوي

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers flying in a large attack formation

The first use of airplanes in war was the Italo-Turkish War of 1911, when the Italians carried out several reconnaissance and bombing missions. During WWI both sides made use of balloons and airplanes for reconnaissance and directing artillery fire. To prevent enemy reconnaissance, some airplane pilots began attacking other airplanes and balloons, first with small arms carried in the cockpit, and later with machine guns mounted on the aircraft. Both sides also made use of aircraft for bombing, strafing and dropping of propaganda leaflets.

The German air force carried out the first terror bombing raids, using Zeppelins to drop bombs on Britain. By the end of the war airplanes had become specialised into bombers, fighters, and surveillance aircraft. Most of these airplanes were biplanes with wooden frames, canvas skins, wire rigging and air-cooled engines.

Between 1918 and 1939, aircraft technology developed very rapidly. By 1939 military biplanes were in the process of being replaced with metal framed monoplanes, often with stressed skins and liquid cooled engines. Top speeds had tripled; altitudes doubled (and oxygen masks become commonplace); ranges and payloads of bombers increased enormously.

Some theorists, most famously Hugh Trenchard and Giulio Douhet, believed that aircraft would become the dominant military arm in the future, and argued that future wars would be won entirely by the destruction of the enemy's military and industrial capability from the air. This concept was called strategic bombing. Douhet also argued in The Command of the Air (1921) that future military leaders could avoid falling into bloody World War I-style trench stalemates by using aviation to strike past the enemy's forces directly at their vulnerable civilian population, which Douhet believed would cause these populations to rise up in revolt to stop the bombing.

Others, such as Billy Mitchell, saw the potential of air power to neutralize the striking power of naval surface fleets. Mitchell himself proved the vulnerability of capital ships to aircraft was finally in 1921 when he commanded a squadron of bombers that sank the ex-German battleship SMS Ostfriesland with aerial bombs. (See Industrial warfare#Naval warfare)

During WWII, there was a debate between strategic bombing and tactical bombing. Strategic bombing focused on targets such as factories, railroads, oil refineries, and heavily populated areas such as cities and towns, and required heavy four-engine bombers carrying large payloads of ordnance or a single heavy four-engine bomber carrying a nuclear weapon flying deep into enemy territory. Tactical bombing focused on concentration of combatants, command and control centers, airfields, and ammunition dumps, and required attack aircraft, dive bombers, and fighter bombers that could fly low over the battlefield.

In the early years of WWII, the German Luftwaffe focused on tactical bombing, using large numbers of Ju 87 Stukas as "flying artillery" for land offensives. Artillery was slow and required time to set up a firing position, whereas aircraft were better able keep up with the fast advances of the German panzer columns. Close air support greatly assisted in the successes of the German Army in the Battle of France. It was also important in amphibious warfare, where aircraft carriers could provide support for soldiers landing on the beaches.

Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers under construction on an assembly line

Strategic bombing, by contrast, was unlike anything the world has seen before or since. In 1940, the Germans attempted to force Britain to surrender through attacks on its airfields and factories, and then on its cities in The Blitz in what became the Battle of Britain, the first major battle whose outcome was determined primarily in the air. The campaigns conducted in Europe and Asia could involve thousands of aircraft dropping tens of thousands of tons of munitions over a single city.

Military aviation in the post-war years was dominated by the needs of the Cold War. The postwar years saw a rapid conversion to jet power, which resulted in enormous increases in speeds and altitudes of aircraft. Until the advent of the intercontinental ballistic missile, major powers relied on high-altitude bombers to deliver their newly developed nuclear deterrent. Each country strove to develop the technology of bombers and the high-altitude fighters that could intercept them. The concept of air superiority began to play a heavy role in aircraft designs for both the United States and the Soviet Union.


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بعد الحرب العالمية الثانية

With the invention of nuclear weapons, the concept of full-scale war carries the prospect of global annihilation, and as such conflicts since WWII have been "low intensity" conflicts,[3] typically in the form of proxy wars fought within local regional confines, using what are now referred to as "conventional weapons", typically combined with the use of asymmetric warfare tactics and applied use of intelligence.

قتال نووي

US test launch of a German V-2 ballistic missile.

The use of nuclear weapons first came into being during the last months of WWII, with the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was the only use of nuclear weapons in combat. For a decade after World War II, the United States and later the Soviet Union (and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom and France) developed and maintained a strategic force of bombers that would be able to attack any potential aggressor from bases inside their countries.

Before the development of a capable strategic missile force in the Soviet Union, much of the war-fighting doctrine held by western nations revolved around the use of a large number of smaller nuclear weapons used in a tactical role. It is arguable if such use could be considered "limited" however, because it was believed that the US would use their own strategic weapons (mainly bombers at the time) should the USSR deploy any kind of nuclear weapon against civilian targets.

A revolution in thinking occurred with the introduction of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which the Soviet Union first successfully tested in the late 1950s. To deliver a warhead to a target, a missile was far less expensive than a bomber that could do the same job. Moreover, at the time it was impossible to intercept ICBMs due to their high altitude and speed.

In the 1960s, another major shift in nuclear doctrine occurred with the development of the submarine-based nuclear missile (SLBM). It was hailed by military theorists as a weapon that would assure a surprise attack would not destroy the capability to retaliate, and therefore would make nuclear war less likely.

الحرب الباردة

Since the end of WWII, no industrial nations have fought such a large, decisive war, due to the availability of weapons that are so destructive that their use would offset the advantages of victory. The fighting of a total war where nuclear weapons are used is something that instead of taking years and the full mobilisation of a country's resources such as in WWII, would take tens of minutes. Such weapons are developed and maintained with relatively modest peace time defence budgets.

By the end of the 1950s, the ideological stand-off of the Cold War between the Western World and the Soviet Union involved thousands of nuclear weapons being aimed at each side by the other. Strategically, the equal balance of destructive power possessed by each side situation came to be known as Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), the idea that a nuclear attack by one superpower would result in nuclear counter-strike by the other. This would result in hundreds of millions of deaths in a world where, in words widely attributed to Nikita Khrushchev, "The living will envy the dead".[4]

During the Cold War, the superpowers sought to avoid open conflict between their respective forces, as both sides recognized that such a clash could very easily escalate, and quickly involve nuclear weapons. Instead, the superpowers fought each other through their involvement in proxy wars, military buildups, and diplomatic standoffs.

In the case of proxy wars, each superpower supported its respective allies in conflicts with forces aligned with the other superpower, such as in the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

أحداث بارزة

السنة المعركة البلد الأهمية
1854–1855 حصار سڤاستوپول Flag of المملكة المتحدة لبريطانيا العظمى وأيرلندا المملكة المتحدة أول استخدام للتلغراف في القتال.[5]
1859 الحرب النمساوية السردينية  فرنسا أول استخدام رئيسي للسكك الحديدية على المستوى الاستراتيجي.
1861 حرب بول رن الأولى  الولايات الكونفدرالية أول معركة تلعب فيها السكك الحديدية دوراً حاسماً.
1862 معركة هامپتون رودز  الولايات الكونفدرالية  الولايات المتحدة أول قتال بين سفينتين حربيتين مصفحتين.
1863 معركة گتيسبورگ  الولايات الكونفدرالية  الولايات المتحدة أكبر المعارك التي وقعت في نصف الكرة الغربي.
1864–1865 حصار پطرسبورگ  الولايات الكونفدرالية  الولايات المتحدة أول مثال على حرب الخنادق الحديث.
1866 معركة تويوتي  الأرجنتين
 البرازيل
 أوروگواي  پاراگواي
أكبر معركة دارت في أمريكا الجنوبية.
1898 الحرب الإسپانية الأمريكية  إسپانيا  الولايات المتحدة الاستخدام المكثف للبوارج المصفحة في القتال البحري.
1905 معركة تسوشيما Flag of Russia الإمبراطورية الروسية Flag of إمبراطورية اليابان إمبراطورية اليابان معركة حاسمة بين البوارج الحربية المصفحة.
1911–1912 الحرب الإيطالية التركية Flag of مملكة إيطاليا مملكة إيطاليا أول استخدام للطائرات في القتال.
1914 معركة مارن الأولى  فرنسا أول استخدام واسع النطاق للمشاة الميكانيكية.
1914–1918 معركة الأطلسي الأولى Flag of الإمبراطورية الألمانية الإمبراطورية الألمانية أول حملة كبرى لحرب الغواصات.
1915 معركة إپرس الأولى Flag of الإمبراطورية الألمانية الإمبراطورية الألمانية أول استخدام واسع النطاق للأسلحة الكيماوية في المعركة.
1916 معركة ڤردون of Verdun  فرنسا Flag of الإمبراطورية الألمانية الإمبراطورية الألمانية High point of fixed fortification warfare.
1917 معركة كامبراي Flag of المملكة المتحدة لبريطانيا العظمى وأيرلندا المملكة المتحدة أول استخدام ناجح للدبابات الكثيفة في القتال.
1925 حرب الريف Flag of فرنسا فرنسا  إسپانيا أول هجوم برمائي باستخدام الدبابات والطائرات.
1937 قصف گويرنيكا Flag of ألمانيا النازية ألمانيا النازية Flag of مملكة إيطاليا مملكة إيطاليا أول استخدام عاصر للقصف الإرهابي.
1937 معركة إل مازوكو Flag of إسپانيا الفرانكوية إسپانيا الفرانكوية Flag of ألمانيا النازية ألمانيا النازية أول استخدام رئيسي carpet bombing ضد هدف عسكري.
1940 معركة بريطانيا Flag of ألمانيا النازية ألمانيا النازية  المملكة المتحدة أول قتال رئيسي يدور بالكامل في الجو.
1940 معركة تارانتو  المملكة المتحدة أول معركة بحرية يوظف فيها جانب واحد فقط من المتحاربين الطائرات.
1941 معركة كريت Flag of ألمانيا النازية ألمانيا النازية أول معركة رئيسي يوظف فيها جانب واحد فقط من المتحاربين القوات الجوية.
1941 عملية باربروسا Flag of ألمانيا النازية ألمانيا النازية  الاتحاد السوڤيتي High point of Blitzkrieg warfare. Largest invasion in history.
1942 معركة بحر الكورال Flag of إمبراطورية اليابان إمبراطورية اليابان  الولايات المتحدة First naval battle in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon each other.
1942 معرة ميدواي Flag of إمبراطورية اليابان إمبراطورية اليابان  الولايات المتحدة أول معركة حاسمة يستخدم فيها حاملات الطائرات.
1942 معركة ستالينگراد Flag of ألمانيا النازية ألمانيا النازية  الاتحاد السوڤيتي Largest single battle in history. Decisive battle of the Nazi-Soviet War.
1942 معركة گوادالكانال Flag of إمبراطورية اليابان إمبراطورية اليابان  الولايات المتحدة أول حملة جوية-برية-بحرية كبرى في التاريخ.
1943 معركة كورسك Flag of ألمانيا النازية ألمانيا النازية  الاتحاد السوڤيتي أكبر معركة دبابات في التاريخ.
1944 غزو نورماندي  المملكة المتحدة  الولايات المتحدة  كندا أكبر غزو بحري في التاريخ.
1944 معركة خليج لاييت Flag of إمبراطورية اليابان إمبراطورية اليابان  الولايات المتحدة أكبر معركة بحرية في التاريخ.

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المصادر

  1. ^ p.410, Christon I. Archer, World History of Warfare
  2. ^ Bailey, Thomas and David Kennedy: The American Pageant, page 434. 1987
  3. ^ Creveld, Martin Van. "Technology and War II:Postmodern War?". In Charles Townshend (ed.). The Oxford History of Modern War. p. 349.
  4. ^ Attributed to Nikita Khrushchev, speaking of nuclear war www.bartleby.com
  5. ^ Cable Plough & The Electric Telegraph

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