The Diffusion of Military Technology and IdeasStanford University Press, 2003 - 415 páginas As military forces across the globe adopt new technologies, doctrines, and organizational forms suited to warfare in the information age, defense practitioners and academic specialists are debating the potential consequences of the "revolution in military affairs." The central question of this book is how such revolutions spread, to whom, how quickly, and with what consequences for the global balance of military power. The contributors to this volume who include historians, political scientists, policy analysts, and sociologists examine the diffusion of weapons technology, know-how, and methods of conducting military operations over the past two hundred years. The approach reflects the recent reawakening of interest in the relationship between culture and security. The transition from the industrial age to the information age has impacted warfare much as it has other social institutions. Advances in precision weapons, surveillance satellites, robotics, and computer-based information processing, together with organizational changes that network military units, promise to create fundamentally new ways of war; the final outcome of the current revolution is unpredictable as the North Korean missile program shows but its global impact will hinge on how the revolution diffuses. |
Contenido
Introduction Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Innovation and Diffusion | 1 |
Heart of the Sepoy The Adoption and Adaptation of European Military Practice in South Asia 17401805 | 33 |
Armies of Snow and Armies of Sand The Impact of Soviet Military Doctrine on Arab Militaries | 63 |
Cooperative Diffusion through Cultural Similarity The Postwar AngloSaxon Experience | 93 |
Reflections on Mirror Images Politics and Technology in the Arsenals of the Warsaw Pact | 117 |
The Diffusion of Nuclear Weapons | 146 |
Revolution and CounterRevolution The Role of the Periphery in Technological and Conceptual Innovation | 179 |
Military Diffusion in NineteenthCentury Europe The Napoleonic and Prussian Military Systems | 205 |
Beyond Blitzkrieg Allied Responses to CombinedArms Armored Warfare during World War II | 243 |
Receptivity to Revolution Carrier Air Power in Peace and War | 267 |
Creating the Enemy Global Diffusion of the Information TechnologyBased Military Model | 307 |
Patterns of Commercial Diffusion | 348 |
Conclusion The Diffusion of Military Technology and IdeasTheory and Practice | 371 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy Colin S. Gray Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
American Military Technology: The Life Story of a Technology Barton C. Hacker,Margaret Vining Vista previa limitada - 2007 |