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Twenty-First Century Military Innovation: Technological, Organizational, and Strategic Change beyond Conventional War
University of Michigan Press, 2022 Cloth: 978-0-472-13313-0 | eISBN: 978-0-472-22041-0 Library of Congress Classification U390 Dewey Decimal Classification 355.07
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Contemporary war is as much a quest for decisive technological, organizational, and doctrinal superiority before the fighting starts as it is an effort to destroy enemy militaries during battle. Armed forces that are not actively fighting are instead actively reengineering themselves for success in the next fight and imagining what that next fight may look like. Twenty-First Century Military Innovation outlines the most theoretically important themes in contemporary warfare, especially as these appear in distinctive innovations that signal changes in states’ warfighting capacities and their political goals. See other books on: Military art and science | Military Policy | Military Science | Security (National & International) | Technological innovations See other titles from University of Michigan Press |
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Twenty-First Century Military Innovation: Technological, Organizational, and Strategic Change beyond Conventional War
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
University of Michigan Press, 2022
Cloth: 978-0-472-13313-0
eISBN: 978-0-472-22041-0
Cloth: 978-0-472-13313-0
eISBN: 978-0-472-22041-0
Contemporary war is as much a quest for decisive technological, organizational, and doctrinal superiority before the fighting starts as it is an effort to destroy enemy militaries during battle. Armed forces that are not actively fighting are instead actively reengineering themselves for success in the next fight and imagining what that next fight may look like. Twenty-First Century Military Innovation outlines the most theoretically important themes in contemporary warfare, especially as these appear in distinctive innovations that signal changes in states’ warfighting capacities and their political goals.
Marcus Schulzke examines eight case studies that illustrate the overall direction of military innovation and important underlying themes. He devotes three chapters to new weapons technologies (drones, cyberweapons, and nonlethal weapons), two chapters to changes in the composition of state military forces (private military contractors and special operations forces), and three chapters to strategic and tactical changes (targeted killing, population-centric counterinsurgency, and degradation). Each case study includes an accessible introduction to the topic area, an overview of the ongoing scholarly debates surrounding that topic, and the most important theoretical implications. An engaging overview of the themes that emerge with military innovation, this book will also attract readers interested in particular topic areas.
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