Military Power
Subtitle: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780691116457
Subjects: Theory of warfare & military science; Political Science; Military - Strategy; History - Military / War; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Politics/International Relations; Offensive (Military science); Military Science; Political Science / General; Political Science and International Relations; History; International Relations - Arms Control; Military - General; Defensive (Military science); Deployment (Strategy); Military art and science
First sentence: WHAT CAUSES VICTORY and defeat in battle?
Description: "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 material is thus to risk major error - with serious consequences for both policy and scholarship." "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 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 defense budget."--BOOK JACKET.