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Security studies today
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ISBN: 0745617735 0745617727 9780745617725 9780745617732 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge Malden, MA Polity Press Blackwell publishers

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"By defining the parameters of the discipline and identifying the paradigms contained within it, this book provides a foundation for understanding the current debates and thinking in security studies. It is written for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in security studies and international relations as well as contributing to the development of the current academic debate on the meaning and nature of security."--Jacket.

The Nixon administration and the making of U.S. nuclear strategy
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ISBN: 1501717596 9781501717598 0801430828 9780801430824 Year: 1995 Publisher: Ithaca

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In 1974 Richard Nixon's defense secretary, James Schlesinger, announced that the United States would change its nuclear targeting policy from "assured destruction" to "limited nuclear options." In this account of the Schlesinger Doctrine based on newly declassified documents and extensive interviews with key actors, Terry Terriff challenges the Nixon administration's official explanation of why and how this policy innovation occurred.

The sources of military change: culture, politics, technology
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ISBN: 1555879756 Year: 2002 Publisher: Boulder, Colo. Rienner

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The sources of military change
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ISBN: 1588261794 9781588261793 1555879756 9781555879754 Year: 2002 Publisher: Boulder, Colo. Lynne Rienner Publishers

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In varying circumstances, military organizations around the world are undergoing major restructuring. This book explores why, and how, militaries change. The authors focus on a complex of three influencing factors—cultural norms, politics, and new technology—offering a historical perspective of more than a century. Their analyses range from developing states to Russia, Britain, the U.S., and NATO. Throughout, they reveal the manifold interactions between state and military, and also within both, as primary driving forces of change.

Critical Reflections on Security and Change
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ISBN: 0714649937 Year: 2000 Publisher: London : Frank Cass,

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Global insurgency and the future of armed conflict : debating fourth-generation warfare
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ISBN: 9780415778374 9780415413572 9780203089279 9781134124107 9781134124145 9781134124152 Year: 2009 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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Transforming military power since the Cold War : Britain, France, and the United States, 1991-2012
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ISBN: 1107454948 1107461979 1107360145 1107044324 1107621445 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book provides an authoritative account of how the US, British, and French armies have transformed since the end of the Cold War. All three armies have sought to respond to changes in their strategic and socio-technological environments by developing more expeditionary capable and networked forces. Drawing on extensive archival research, hundreds of interviews, and unprecedented access to official documents, the authors examine both the process and the outcomes of army transformation, and ask how organizational interests, emerging ideas, and key entrepreneurial leaders interact in shaping the direction of military change. They also explore how programs of army transformation change over time, as new technologies moved from research to development, and as lessons from operations were absorbed. In framing these issues, they draw on military innovation scholarship and, in addressing them, produce findings with general relevance for the study of how militaries innovate.


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A transformation gap? : American innovations and European military change
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ISBN: 080478180X 9780804781800 9780804763776 9780804763783 Year: 2010 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,

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NATO member states are all undergoing some form of military transformation. Despite a shared vision, transformation has been primarily a US-led process centered on the exploitation of new information technologies in combination with new concepts for "networked organizations" and "effects-based operations." Simply put, European states have been unable to match the level of US investment in new military technologies, leading to the identification of a growing "transformation gap" between the US and the European allies. This book assesses the extent and trajectory of military transformation across a range of European NATO member states, setting their transformation progress against that of the US, and examining the complex mix of factors driving military transformation in each country. It reveals not only the nature and extent of the transatlantic gap, but also identifies an enormous variation in the extent and pace of transformation among the European allies, suggesting both technological and operational gaps within Europe.

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