Military Power
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Air force
Air supremacy
Aircraft
Armoured warfare
Artillery
Attack aircraft
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Battalion
Battle of 73 Easting
Bomb
British Army
Capability
Capability (systems engineering)
Case study
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Cavalry
Ceteris paribus
Close air support
Combatant
Counterattack
DARPA
Defence in depth
Division (military)
Entrenchment (fortification)
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Exhaustion
Falaise Pocket
Finding
Force structure
Frontage
Gulf War
Howitzer
Implementation
Infantry
Institute for Defense Analyses
International relations
John Mearsheimer
Lethality
Loss exchange ratio
Machine gun
Materiel
Military
Military capability
Military doctrine
Military history
Military operation
Military organization
Military tactics
Military technology
Morale
On War
Prediction
Quantity
Reconnaissance
Requirement
Result
Revolution in Military Affairs
Simulation
Sortie
Strategic bombing
Superiority (short story)
Suppressive fire
Technological change
Technology
Trade-off
Troop
Vulnerability
War
Warfare
Weapon
Weapon system
World War I
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691128023
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jul 2006
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force employment, or the doctrine and tactics by which materiel is actually used. In a landmark reconception of battle and war, 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 materiel is thus to risk major error--with serious consequences for both policy and scholarship. In clear, fluent prose, 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 on both 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.
Stephen Biddle is Senior Fellow in Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has published extensively in defense policy and international relations, and he has held teaching and research positions in both academic political science and official defense policy analysis.
