Format:
1 online resource (285 pages)
ISBN:
9780511656712
Content:
Addresses the military's pursuit of 'usable' weaponry that is deliberately crafted to be less powerful, less deadly, and less destructive than the systems it is designed to supplement or replace.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Revolutionary Weapons and Transformed War -- World at war -- Revolutions in military affairs -- Today's revolution(s) -- Bureaucratic structures and controversies -- Revolutionary Missions -- An oddity in the ongoing transformation -- Dimensions of useability -- Bottom line -- Bibliography -- 2 Deterrence and Self-Deterrence -- What is deterrence? -- Variations upon deterrence -- Self-deterrence -- Enemy casualties -- Capability and resolve -- Proportional response -- Origins of self-deterrence -- Bottom line -- Bibliography -- 3 The Law of Armed Conflict -- Law of armed conflict -- Why obey this law? -- Modern stresses on lac -- Arms control limitations on specific weapons -- Discrimination -- Military necessity -- Proportionality -- Bottom line -- Bibliography -- Treaties -- 4 Precision-Guided Munitions -- Constraints on accuracy -- Modern precision-guided munitions -- Growth in pgm use -- Advantages of precision -- Measuring precision precisely -- Future developments -- Bottom line -- Bibliography -- 5 Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons -- Varieties of nuclear weapons -- Current nuclear weapons inventories -- Useable nuclear weapons: caves -- Useable nuclear weapons: wmd depots -- Earlier earth penetration programs -- Critics contest the hypothesis -- The dangers of nuclear useability -- The international law of nuclear weapons -- The legislative debate over useable nuclear weapons -- Bottom line -- Bibliography -- 6 Smart Antipersonnel Land Mines -- Definition and types of land mines -- Historical patterns of mine use -- The paradigm shifts -- Debating the military utility of land mines -- The international law of land mines -- Smart and dumb mines -- Current inventories -- Bottom line -- Bibliography -- Treaties.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521119511
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521119511
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=472012
