Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
Biddle, Stephen
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Book ID : 26812
ISBN-10 : 81-7049-230-0 / 8170492300
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2005
Edition :
Language :
Index, 25 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
In a landmark reconception of Battle and War, this book provides a systematic account of how Force Employment interacts with material to produce real combat outcomes. Stephen Biddle argues that Force Employment is central to modern war, becoming increasingly important as the key to surviving ever more lethal weaponry. Technological change produces opposite effects depending on how forces are employed; to focus only on material is thus to risk major error-with serious consequences for both policy and scholarship. Military Power will have a resounding impact both on scholarship in the field and on policy debates over the future of warfare, the size of the military, and the makeup of the defence budget.
