Military Power (eBook)

Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle

Stephen Biddle (Autor)

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2010
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3782-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which materiel is actually used. In a landmark reconception of battle and war, this book provides a systematic account of how force employment interacts with materiel to produce real combat outcomes. Stephen Biddle argues that force employment is central to modern war, becoming increasingly important since 1900 as the key to surviving ever more lethal weaponry. Technological change produces opposite effects depending on how forces are employed; to focus only on materiel is thus to risk major error--with serious consequences for both policy and scholarship. In clear, fluent prose, Biddle provides a systematic account of force employment's role and shows how this account holds up under rigorous, multimethod testing. The results challenge a wide variety of standard views, from current expectations for a revolution in military affairs to mainstream scholarship in international relations and orthodox interpretations of modern military history. Military Power will have a resounding impact on both scholarship in the field and on policy debates over the future of warfare, the size of the military, and the makeup of the defense budget.

Autor

Stephen Biddle is Senior Fellow in Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has published extensively in defense policy and international relations, and he has held teaching and research positions in both academic political science and official defense policy analysis.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 37 line illus. 12 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Active protection system • Aircraft • Air Force • airland battle • Airpower • air supremacy • Ammunition • Approximation • armoured fighting vehicle • Armoured warfare • Army • artillery • attack aircraft • Availability • battalion • Battle of 73 Easting • Bomb • British Army • Calculation • Capability • Capability (systems engineering) • carpet bombing • Case study • Cavalry • Ceteris paribus • close air support • Combatant • Correlates of War • counterattack • darpa • defence in depth • Determinant • Division (military) • Entrenchment (fortification) • Exhaustion • falaise pocket • Finding • Force structure • Frontage • grand strategy • Gulf War • howitzer • hypothesis • implementation • infantry • Institute for Defense Analyses • International Relations • International Security • John Mearsheimer • lethality • Level of Analysis • logistics • Loss exchange ratio • machine gun • Materiel • Military • Military Aircraft • Military Capability • military doctrine • military history • Military Operation • Military organization • Military tactics • Military Technology • morale • nuclear weapon • on war • Operation Overlord • Operations Research • Prediction • Quantity • Reconnaissance • Requirement • result • Revolution in military affairs • Rifle • Rule Of Thumb • Second Battle of the Somme (1918) • Simulation • sortie • strategic bombing • Superiority (short story) • Suppressive fire • Tactical nuclear weapon • Tactics (brand) • Target Acquisition • Technological Change • Technology • Trade-off • Trench • trench warfare • troop • Vehicle • vulnerability • war • warfare • Weapon • weapon system • World War I • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3782-0 / 1400837820
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3782-3 / 9781400837823