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Military Power : Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle / Stephen Biddle.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) : 37 line illus. 12 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780691116457
  • 9781400837823
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.02
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. A Literature Built on Weak Foundations -- CHAPTER THREE. The Modern System -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Modern System, Preponderance, and Changing Technology -- CHAPTER FIVE. Operation MICHAEL-The Second Battle of the Somme, March 21-April 9, 1918 -- CHAPTER SIX. Operation GOODWOOD-July 18-20, 1944 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Operation DESERT STORM-January 17-February 28, 1991 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Statistical Tests -- CHAPTER NINE. Experimental Tests -- CHAPTER TEN. Conclusion -- APPENDIX. A Formal Model of Capability -- Notes -- Index
Summary: In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which materiel is actually used. In a landmark reconception of battle and war, this book provides a systematic account of how force employment interacts with materiel to produce real combat outcomes. Stephen Biddle argues that force employment is central to modern war, becoming increasingly important since 1900 as the key to surviving ever more lethal weaponry. Technological change produces opposite effects depending on how forces are employed; to focus only on materiel is thus to risk major error--with serious consequences for both policy and scholarship. In clear, fluent prose, Biddle provides a systematic account of force employment's role and shows how this account holds up under rigorous, multimethod testing. The results challenge a wide variety of standard views, from current expectations for a revolution in military affairs to mainstream scholarship in international relations and orthodox interpretations of modern military history. Military Power will have a resounding impact on both scholarship in the field and on policy debates over the future of warfare, the size of the military, and the makeup of the defense budget.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. A Literature Built on Weak Foundations -- CHAPTER THREE. The Modern System -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Modern System, Preponderance, and Changing Technology -- CHAPTER FIVE. Operation MICHAEL-The Second Battle of the Somme, March 21-April 9, 1918 -- CHAPTER SIX. Operation GOODWOOD-July 18-20, 1944 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Operation DESERT STORM-January 17-February 28, 1991 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Statistical Tests -- CHAPTER NINE. Experimental Tests -- CHAPTER TEN. Conclusion -- APPENDIX. A Formal Model of Capability -- Notes -- Index

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In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which materiel is actually used. In a landmark reconception of battle and war, this book provides a systematic account of how force employment interacts with materiel to produce real combat outcomes. Stephen Biddle argues that force employment is central to modern war, becoming increasingly important since 1900 as the key to surviving ever more lethal weaponry. Technological change produces opposite effects depending on how forces are employed; to focus only on materiel is thus to risk major error--with serious consequences for both policy and scholarship. In clear, fluent prose, Biddle provides a systematic account of force employment's role and shows how this account holds up under rigorous, multimethod testing. The results challenge a wide variety of standard views, from current expectations for a revolution in military affairs to mainstream scholarship in international relations and orthodox interpretations of modern military history. Military Power will have a resounding impact on both scholarship in the field and on policy debates over the future of warfare, the size of the military, and the makeup of the defense budget.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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