Twenty-First Century Military Innovation: Technological, Organizational, and Strategic Change Beyond Conventional War - Couverture rigide

Schulzke, Marcus

 
9780472133130: Twenty-First Century Military Innovation: Technological, Organizational, and Strategic Change Beyond Conventional War
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0472133136 ISBN 13 : 9780472133130
Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2022

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Marcus Schulzke is the author of Simulating Good and Evil: The Morality and Politics of Videogames (2020), The Pursuit of Moral Warfare: Ethical Theory and Practice in Counterinsurgency Operations (2018), Combat Drones and Support for the Use of Force, with James Walsh (2018).

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Éditeur
The University of Michigan Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0472133136
ISBN 13 
9780472133130
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
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Personne responsable
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