The future of land warfare
What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the arm...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C.
Brookings Institution Press
2015, 2015
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| Series: | Geopolitics in the 21st century
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the army and ground forces: this, after the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seems like an appealing idea. No one really wants American boots on the ground in bloody conflicts abroad. But it is not so easy to simply declare an end to messy land wars. A survey of the world's trouble spots suggests that land war |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (254 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780815726913 0815727429 0815726902 0815726910 9780815726906 9780815726890 9780815727422 |