Indeed it wasn't an ancient technology, but in the 19th and 20th centuries warfare adapted at a blistering pace compared to earlier centuries. Three to five dec

Indeed it wasn't an ancient technology, but in the 19th and 20th centuries warfare adapted at a blistering pace compared to earlier centuries. Three to five decades of advancement was everything. Rifled barrels, self-contained cartridges, breach loading, tractors, planes, radios, morphine, acriflavine, and barbed wire were all fairly recent technologies still finding their practical and doctrinal uses in warfare.