Book Description
Giving an overview of research and development in weaponry in the maritime and aviation sphere as well as land-based technology, this study looks forward to the effects of emerging innovations on defence policy-making.
Author : Ian Bellany
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1135177732
Giving an overview of research and development in weaponry in the maritime and aviation sphere as well as land-based technology, this study looks forward to the effects of emerging innovations on defence policy-making.
Author : John P. Caves
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
ISBN :
Author : Christoph Bertram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 1979-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349040320
Author : Colin McInnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1000262839
This book, first published in 1990, is an incisive examination of NATO’s strategy for the defence of the central front – the concern that has lain at the heart of NATO since its formation. Politically, the central front marked the post-war division of Europe into two competing blocs; militarily, it has represented the area of greatest force concentration and greatest threat. As NATO’s strategic agenda changed with the end of the Cold War, the central front remained a critical concern. This book analyses the structure, strategy and doctrines of both East and West, and examines the relationship of NATO strategy to conventional force doctrines.
Author : Warren A. Chin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351162349
Originally published in 2004. This incisive work reveals the causes of escalating costs and delays in British defence procurement from 1945 to the present. Tackling a complex subject in a straightforward and readable manner, it considers how successive British governments reacted to this problem, why they adopted the reforms they did and why these reforms failed to have any meaningful effect on the operation of this process. The study draws upon a number of disciplines such as economics, politics and science and engineering to provide a broad synthesis that allows the reader to understand the technicalities of the process. The conclusion reached is that there is no apparent solution to the problem of intergenerational costs of weapons, but that a key to controlling the growing cost of projects during their development lies in the construction of a more effective research and development strategy, a path followed by Margaret Thatcher's predecessors and one that is also being advocated today.
Author : Martin S. Navias
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 1996-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781860640322
During the Iran-Iraq war, hundreds of merchant vessels were attacked, more than 400 seamen killed and millions of dollars' worth of damages were suffered by owners, charterers and insurers. In the most sustained assault on merchant shipping since the Second World War, the control of shipping routes, destruction of enemy and enemy-allied ships, and the protection of oil exports, were key objectives. These campaigns touched the economic and security interests of the Gulf states by threatening their exports and highlighting their political and military vulnerability. The ripples of the tanker wars extended well beyond the region with attacks on vessels with foreign flags which invoked international concern and drew in foreign naval forces.
Author : Ian Bellany
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 113517766X
Giving an overview of research and development in weaponry in the maritime and aviation sphere as well as land-based technology, this study looks forward to the effects of emerging innovations on defence policy-making.
Author : Michael Quinlan
Publisher : Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
En studie vedr. kernevåbens betydning og indflydelse på sikkerhedspolitik og magtbalance
Author : Barry R. Posen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080146837X
In this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflicts among states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation. Knowledge of these hidden pressures, he believes, may help some future decision maker avoid catastrophe.Building a formidable argument that moves with cumulative force, he details the way in which escalation could occur not by mindless accident, or by deliberate preference for nuclear escalation, but rather as a natural accompaniment of land, naval, or air warfare at the conventional level. Posen bases his analysis on an empirical study of the east-west military competition in Europe during the 1980s, using a conceptual framework drawn from international relations theory, organization theory, and strategic theory.The lessons of his book, however, go well beyond the east-west competition. Since his observations are relevant to all military competitions between states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, his book speaks to some of the problems that attend the proliferation of nuclear weapons in longstanding regional conflicts. Optimism that small and medium nuclear powers can easily achieve "stable" nuclear balances is, he believes, unwarranted.
Author : Stuart Croft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 36,96 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131788454X
This text provides a concise thematic introduction to the evolution of British defence policy since the end of the second world war