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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New York, NY
St. Martin's Griffin
1996
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Table of Contents:
- 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.