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.
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| Series: | Geopolitics in the 21st century (Brookings Institution)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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 online resource (254 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-242) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780815726890 0815726899 9780815726913 0815726910 9780815726906 0815726902 |