The future of war power, technology, and American world dominance in the 21st century
The Future of War makes a brilliant case that the twenty-first century, even more than the twentieth, will be the American century, and that America's global dominance will be associated with a revolution in weaponry and warfare as basic as the one that arose with the development of gunpowder f...
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St. Martin's Griffin
1996
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The future of war |b power, technology, and American world dominance in the 21st century |c George & Meredith Friedman |
| 260 | |a New York, NY |b St. Martin's Griffin |c 1996 | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 464 p. |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The Dawn of the American Epoch -- Pt. 1. Weapons and Strategy -- Introduction: The Culture of War. -- 1. David's Sling: On the Rise and Fall of Weapons. -- 2. Soldiers and Scientists: The Origins of American Military Failure. -- 3. False Dawn: The Failure of Nuclear Weapons. -- 4. Fundamentals: The Sea in American Strategy -- Pt. 2. The Senility of European Weaponry -- Introduction: From Ballistics to Brilliance. -- 5. From Gunpowder to Petroleum: Tanks Triumphant. -- 6. Sensing Senility. -- 7. The Rise and Fall of the Gunboat. -- 8. The Aircraft Carrier as Midwife. -- 9. First Thoughts on Airpower. -- 10. Rethinking Failure: Vietnam and the Failure of Airpower. -- 11. Dawn Breaks: Desert Storm and the Future of Aerial Warfare. -- 12. End Game: The Senility of the Manned Aircraft -- Pt. 3. Space and Precision War in the American Epoch -- Introduction: The Logic of Space Warfare. -- 13. A New Foundation: Space and Contemporary American Strategy. -- 14. Space and the Future of American Strategy.--15. The Return of the Poor, Bloody Infantry -- Conclusion: The Permanent Dilemma - Control and Use of the Sea in the American Epoch. | |
| 520 | |a The Future of War makes a brilliant case that the twenty-first century, even more than the twentieth, will be the American century, and that America's global dominance will be associated with a revolution in weaponry and warfare as basic as the one that arose with the development of gunpowder five hundred years ago. From the era of flintlocks and cannons to the day of automatic weapons and heavy artillery, the waging of war-while undeniably changing in many aspects-has continued to rely on the technology that began with the use of black powder to expel a projectile through a tube. | ||
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