Victor David Henson's "Murder and Civilization" (Western scientific civilization has always overwhelmed the non-Western world?)

 This book talks about how the West was able to overwhelm and win the non-Western militarily. We are looking for other fundamental causes besides the superiority of military strategies and the superiority of gunpowder weapons, for the victory of the West in nine battles in which it could have won the world. The author's answer is a more democratic political system than the non-Western countries (the Battle of Salamis...) and strict discipline and rationality (the Battle of Rocks drift). I'm looking for openness to make WMDs when necessary. Also, the conventional wisdom...In other words, they also refuted claims that the West was able to overwhelm the non-Western world only after the introduction of gunpowder weapons, or that the fundamental cause of Western development was found in natural conditions: large amounts of iron ore and coal. However, although the main theme of this book is military consideration and presupposes that Western science and technology are superior to what is known, there was no mention that the West always overwhelms the non-Western. After reading this book, a person who claimed that Western science and technology always overwhelmed the non-Western world said that he had only read the preface, so I looked for articles about it in the preface. Prologue - Why did the West win? Is Western dominance the work of future generations?There is a sub-title that comes out from pages 48 to 51.The content, as the title suggests, is a rebuttal to the fact that Western military superiority began in later generations, that is, after the 13th century. The main content was that from 497 BC to 500 AD, military technology - Greek fire - existed that could overwhelm non-Western forces under unfavorable conditions even in the dark and military superiority of the West. But even the author who was making that argument says this in the middle of page 49...According to the present view, even after the fall of the Roman Empire, the West lagged far behind the cultures of China and the Islamic world, but the military's power was considerably stronger than its population and territorial size. Even the author, who argued that the West was never at a disadvantage compared to the non-Western countries despite the unfavorable conditions of the Dark Ages, admitted that the West was lagging behind the Chinese and Islamic forces in other areas. Of course, there may be questions about whether science is included in that "culture," but the next paragraph on page 51 - the Western way of war - also mentions this in a subheading article...Moreover, it is not necessarily true that the West monopolized excellent technology and science. The Tririm of Temistocles, who won Salamis, was no better than the battleship of Xerxes..." Victor David Henson, author of this book, rebelled against the conventional wisdom that Western military superiority began in modern times, but did not see Western civilization, science and technology, as always precede the non-Western. If Josephine Dame and other scholars argue that the West has always overwhelmed non-Western science, Henson, on the contrary, says that the West lags behind the non-Western except for military superiority, clearly nailing science and technology, and so on. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I found this after looking at another book. The Arab sciences that the West took through the Iberian Peninsula's restoration and the Crusades. Abacus, the so-called Arabic numerals, including the concept of astrolabe, algebra, trigonometry, zero, which are navigation instruments using the positions of stars.In addition, he learned alcohol distillation techniques and sugar production methods. Among them, the Arabic numbers, including the concept of zero, were first used by Hindus in India, and I understand that the papermaking technique was handed down by a Tang prisoner caught at the Battle of Talas. Therefore, even if a Western scholar said that the West overwhelmed the non-Western world in all areas, Sohae's judgment is that it should be considered not true.