Author : Krista Romita Grocholski
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781977408570
This report describes how to evaluate the impact of non-lethal weapons (NLWs). Characterizing the contribution of NLWs to strategic goals provides insights into their effective integration throughout U.S. Department of Defense operations.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309168872
Non-lethal weapons (NLWs) are designed to minimize fatalities and other undesired collateral damage when used. Events of the last few years including the attack on the USS Cole have raised ideas about the role NLWs can play in enhancing support to naval forces. In particular to what extent and in what areas should Department of the Navy (DoN) -sponsored science and technology (S&T) provide a research base for developing NLW capabilities? To assist with this question and to evaluate the current NLWs program, the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) requested the National Research Council perform an assessment of NLWs science and technology. The report presents the results of that assessment. It discusses promising NLW S&T areas, development accomplishments and concerns about NLW, and series of recommendations about future NLW development and application.
Author : Nick Lewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1135317453
These essays explore the increase in interest in non-lethal weapons. Such devices have meant that many armed forces and law enforcement agencies are able to act against undesirables without being accused of acting in an inhumane way. Topics for discussion in this volume include: an overview of the future of non-lethal weapons; emerging non-lethal technologies; military and police operational deployment of non-lethal weapons; a scientific evaluation of the effectiveness of non-lethal weapons; changes in international law needed to take into account non-lethal technologies; developments in genomics leading to new chemical incapacitants; implications for arms control and proliferation; the role of non-lethal weapons in human rights abuses; conceptual, theoretical and analytical perspectives on the nature of non-lethal weapons development.
Author : Graham T. Allison
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0876093411
By providing an intermediate option between "don't shoot" and "shoot," the Task Force observes, nonlethal weapons (NLW) have enormous potential in the new military roles of modern combat. Wider integration of existing types of NLW into the U.S. Army and Marine Corps could have helped to reduce the damage done by widespread looting and sabotage after the cessation of major conflict in Iraq. This Independent Task Force report on Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities finds that incorporating these and additional forms of nonlethal capabilities into the equipment, training, and doctrine of the armed services could substantially improve U.S. military effectiveness.
Author : Richard L. Garwin
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780876092569
"To explore this potential and its impact on policy, the Council on Foreign Relations sponsored a second Independent Task Force on Nonlethal Technologies.
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File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2022
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This brief summarizes a RAND-developed methodology to evaluate the impact of non-lethal weapons in a way that better informs Department of Defense decisions about their development, integration into military forces, and use in diverse contexts.
Author : Nick Lewer
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781856494854
Laser weapons, optical munitions causing blinding, electrical stunners, infrasound beams to disorient people, repeat pulse microwave devices, and a whole range of new chemical weapons (super-corrosives, super-adhesives, anti-traction and embrittling substances) - the list of new generation, hi-tech anti-personnel and anti-materiel ̃weaponry is a long one. These so-called non-lethal weapons are the subject of this remarkable book on an arms race which the general public has hardly yet heard of.
Author : Douglas C. Lovelace
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)
ISBN : 1428912959
Author : Brian Rappert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1135760225
As mankind finds ever more impious ways to kill and maim, some look to non-lethal weapons as a fix. Brian Rappert discusses the technologies involved and the ethics of, for example blinding someone with a laser, leaving them blind forever, versus killing them outright.
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