The (real) revolution in military affairs /

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Author / Creator:	Martyanov, Andrei, 1963- author.
Imprint:	Atlanta, GA : Clarity Press, [2019]
Description:	222 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Military art and science -- Technological innovations. Military art and science -- History -- 20th century. Military art and science -- History -- 21st century. Armed Forces. Military policy. Armed Forces. Military policy. United States. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12037849

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ISBN:	1949762076 9781949762075
Notes:	Includes endnotes (pages 194-216) and index.
Summary:	"The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs provides deep insight into the technological evolution of weapons and its impact on international relations in the 20th and 21st centuries. The United States' efforts to preserve not just its dominance but the perception of its dominance are bound to fail for many important reasons. None are more important than what is often misidentified in the past American military-theoretical hypotheses as the future of warfare, known generically as the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). This book explains why those hypotheses are failing and will continue to fail, and addresses the real RMA. In the end, technological development in weaponry as a response to tactical, operational and strategic requirements defines not only a nation's geopolitical status but determines the global order." P. [4] of cover.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: The Absence of War: An Omission in the Western Definition of "a Good Life"
Chapter 1. The "Thucydides Trap" Delusion: The Incoherence and Fallacy of Contemporary Geopolitical Concepts
Chapter 2. Measuring Geopolitical Power in Numbers: Why Existing Mathematical Models Fail
Chapter 3. How to (Really) View Warfare in Numbers
Chapter 4. The Revolution in Military Affairs: Two Different Views
Chapter 5. The End of Invulnerability
Chapter 6. Shield Trumps Sword: Today's Air-Space Battles
Chapter 7. The Global Impact of the Proliferation of New Military Technologies
Conclusion: A New Era Begins
Postscript: What Is the Future of Warfare?
Endnotes
Index

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