Author: Russell Warren HowePublisher:
ISBN: 9780349117508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Weapons
Author: Russell Warren HowePublisher:
ISBN: 9780349117508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Arms Diffusion
Author: THomas W. ZarzeckiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131779429X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Weapons proliferation is one of the most pressing global concerns following the end of the Cold War. Despite the absence of an overarching superpower conflict, armaments and related technologies have continued to spread throughout the international system. This has been particularly true in areas like East Asia and the Middle East, where the traditional two party arms races are not readily apparent. This text addresses these concerns and shortcomings using data on fourteen specific military technological innovations that diffused throughout the international system from 1960 to 1997.
The Global Spread Of Arms
Author: Frederic S PearsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429965044
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This book surveys the broad terrain covered by the concept of ''the security dilemma'' and points out landmarks along the route proceeding from proliferation to economic interests, showing that the arms trade is built into development of both industrial technology and political competition.
Quarterly Review of Military Literature
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Professional Journal of the United States Army
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Of Arms and Men
Author: Robert L. O'ConnellPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199878900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The appearance of the crossbow on the European battle field in A.D. 1100 as the weapon of choice for shooting down knights threatened the status quo of medieval chivalric fighting techniques. By 1139 the Church had intervened, outlawing the use of the crossbow among Christians. With this edict, arms control was born. As Robert L. O'Connell reveals in this vividly written history of weapons in Western culture, that first attempt at an arms control measure characterizes the complex and often paradoxical relationship between men and arms throughout the centuries. In a sweeping narrative that ranges from prehistoric times to the nuclear age, O'Connell demonstrates how social and economic conditions determine the types of weapons and the tactics used in warfare and how, in turn, innovations in weapons technology often undercut social values. He describes, for instance, how the invention of the gun required a redefinition of courage from aggressive ferocity to calmness under fire; and how the machine gun in World War I so overthrew traditional notions of combat that Lord Kitchener exclaimed, "This isn't war!" The technology unleashed during the Great War radically altered our perceptions of ourselves, as these new weapons made human qualities almost irrelevant in combat. With the invention of the atomic bomb, humanity itself became subservient to the weapons it had produced. Of Arms and Men brilliantly integrates the evolution of politics, weapons, strategy, and tactics into a coherent narrative, one spiced with striking portraits of men in combat and penetrating insights into why men go to war.
Military Review
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Economic Warfare
Author: R. T. NaylorPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555534998
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This eye-opening account of the futility of forcing political change through economic pressure describes countless cases in which economic warfare repeatedly failed to achieve its stated goals and actually caused substantial harm to innocent populations.
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy
Author: Timothy D. HoytPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351558153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international relations, and recent historical studies of international technology and arms transfers. Looking at Israel, Iraq and India, the three most powerful regional powers in the Cold War era, he presesnts an expert analysis of the three-sided phenomena of the regional hegemony, the regional competitor and the small over-achiever.This new book breaks away from existing literature on military industries in the developing world, which has focused on their economic and development costs and benefits. These past studies have used primitive methodologies that focus on the production of complete weapons systems - a misleading gauge in a world of growing international defense cooperation. They have also ignored empirical evidence of the impact of local military industrial production on Cold War regional conflict, and of the defence planning and concerns that drove development of indigenous military industries in key regional powers. This new text delivers an incisive new perspective.
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