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wapenhandel --- Polemology --- Economic relations. Trade --- Military-industrial complex --- 669.1:355 <520> --- 669.1:355 <485> --- -Military-industrial complex --- -Industrial-military complex --- Defense industries --- Ferrous metallurgy. Iron and steel-:-Defensie. Krijgskunst. Landsverdediging. Strijdkrachten. Krijgskunde--Japan --- Ferrous metallurgy. Iron and steel-:-Defensie. Krijgskunst. Landsverdediging. Strijdkrachten. Krijgskunde--Zweden --- -Ferrous metallurgy. Iron and steel-:-Defensie. Krijgskunst. Landsverdediging. Strijdkrachten. Krijgskunde--Japan --- 669.1:355 <485> Ferrous metallurgy. Iron and steel-:-Defensie. Krijgskunst. Landsverdediging. Strijdkrachten. Krijgskunde--Zweden --- 669.1:355 <520> Ferrous metallurgy. Iron and steel-:-Defensie. Krijgskunst. Landsverdediging. Strijdkrachten. Krijgskunde--Japan --- Industrial-military complex --- Military-industrial complex - Sweden. --- Military-industrial complex - Japan.

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In Building the Trident Network, Maggie Mort approaches the United Kingdom's Trident submarine and missile system as a sociotechnical network. Drawing on the sociology of scientific and technical knowledge and on actor-network theory, Mort recounts how the Trident program was stabilized in the United Kingdom and brought into "successful" production. She uncovers the nature of this success by retelling unofficial histories of Trident, of production roads not taken, and of potential technological "distractions." The production of Trident, she shows, was not inevitable but contingent and problematic. Using material from interviews and local texts, Mort explores the emergence of a counternetwork in the form of a workers' campaign for alternative technologies. She develops concepts of "disenrollment" and "absent intermediaries," in which redundant workers and marginalized technologies serve to discipline and reinforce the dominant network as production shrinks. She also examines the maintenance of the barrier between the technical and the social/political in this context. The management of uncertainties within the Trident production program emerges as critical to its successful completion.--

Trident (Weapons systems) --- Military-industrial complex --- Naval Science - General --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Design and construction. --- United States. --- Great Britain. --- Procurement. --- Industrial-military complex --- D-5 Trident (Weapons systems) --- צי הבריטי --- U.S. Navy --- Defense industries --- Fleet ballistic missile weapons systems --- England and Wales. --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General

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Describes the application of research to the evolution of weapons. It shows how natural, engineering, information and environmental sciences are exploited how even social science is applied to recruitment, battlefield and logistical management, and careful preparation of terroristic acts.

Military research. --- Military-industrial complex. --- Terrorism. --- World politics --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Industrial-military complex --- Defense industries --- Defense research --- Research --- Research and development contracts, Government

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Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals. This new "Privatized Military Industry" encompasses hundreds of companies, thousands of employees, and billions of dollars in revenue. Whether as proxies or suppliers, such firms have participated in wars in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, and Latin America. More recently, they have become a key element in U.S. military operations. Private corporations working for profit now sway the course of national and international conflict, but the consequences have been little explored.In Corporate Warriors, Singer provides the first account of the military services industry and its broader implications. Corporate Warriors includes a description of how the business works, as well as portraits of each of the basic types of companies: military providers that offer troops for tactical operations; military consultants that supply expert advice and training; and military support companies that sell logistics, intelligence, and engineering.This updated edition of Singer's already classic account of the military services industry and its broader implications describes the continuing importance of that industry in the Iraq War. This conflict has amply borne out Singer's argument that the privatization of warfare allows startling new capabilities and efficiencies in the ways that war is carried out. At the same time, however, Singer finds that the introduction of the profit motive onto the battlefield raises troubling questions-for democracy, for ethics, for management, for human rights, and for national security.

Defense industries --- Military-industrial complex --- Privatization --- huurlingenorganisatie --- 35.078 --- 328.182:355 --- -Military-industrial complex --- -35.078 --- 855.2 Private actoren --- Industrial-military complex --- Armaments industries --- Arms sales --- Military sales --- Military supplies industry --- Munitions --- Sale of military equipment --- Vormen van overheidsbemoeing. Opheffing van overheidstussenkomst. Privatisering --- Militairindustrieel complex. Oorlogsindustrie als pressie. Military-industrial complex --- 328.182:355 Militairindustrieel complex. Oorlogsindustrie als pressie. Military-industrial complex --- 35.078 Vormen van overheidsbemoeing. Opheffing van overheidstussenkomst. Privatisering --- Industries --- Arms transfers --- United States --- Military policy. --- Polemology --- Defense industries - United States --- Military-industrial complex - United States --- Privatization - United States --- United States of America --- Defense industries. --- Military-industrial complex. --- Privatization.

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"In Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lecuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley was the culmination of decades of growth and innovation in the San Francisco-area electronics industry. Using the tools of science and technology studies, he explores the formation of Silicon Valley as an industrial district, from its beginnings as the home of a few radio enterprises that operated in the shadow of RCA and other East Coast firms through its establishment as a center of the electronics industry and a leading producer of power grid tubes, microwave tubes, and semiconductors. He traces the emergence of the innovative practices that made this growth possible by following key groups of engineers and entrepreneurs. He examines the forces outside Silicon Valley that shaped the industry - in particular the effect of military patronage and procurement on the growth of the industry and on the development of technologies - and considers the influence of Stanford University and other local institutions of higher learning."--Jacket.

High technology industries --- Microelectronics industry --- Entrepreneurship --- Military-industrial complex --- Industries de pointe --- Microélectronique --- Entrepreneuriat --- Complexes militaro-industriels --- History --- Histoire --- Industrie --- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) --- Silicon Valley (Calif.) --- Elektronikindustrie. --- Industrie. --- Spitzentechnologie. --- Teknologihistorie. --- Elektronikindustri. --- Geschichte 1930-1970. --- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif. --- Silicon Valley. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Industrial-military complex --- Defense industries --- Entrepreneur --- Intrapreneur --- Capitalism --- Business incubators --- Electronic industries --- Industries --- Garden of the World, The (Calif.) --- Llano de los Robles (Calif.) --- Robles del Puerto de San Francisco (Calif.) --- Santa Clara Valley (San Benito County and Santa Clara County, Calif.) --- Thamien (Calif.) --- The Garden of the World (Calif.)