The uncertain course: New weapons strategies and mind-sets
This book presents an analysis of the strategic, military, and technological forces that are changing the nature and likelihood of war. As the world enters the post-nuclear, or 'second' nuclear age, it has to take account of this revolution in military affairs which is as fundamental as the introduction of gunpowder once was. The contributors explain and chart the exotic technologies such as 'Star Wars', the cruise missile explosion, new naval dynamics, the US Army's forward 'Air-Land' doctrine, the Soviet 'Operational Manoeuvre Groups' and 'Theatres of Military-Strategic Operations', battle management, and new challenges complicating international security calculations. They also take account of the fact that the country has twenty-first century weapons but only nineteenth-century ways of thought, and that computers and artificial intelligence are lessening the comprehension and control. They conclude that the risk of inadvertent war is increasing, even as the risk of deliberate war is diminishing.
- OSTI ID:
- 5936296
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ABSTRACTS
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ASIA
ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL
BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE
COMPUTERS
CONTROL
CRUISE MISSILES
DOCUMENT TYPES
EASTERN EUROPE
EUROPE
EXPLOSIONS
INTERNATIONAL CONTROL
LEADING ABSTRACT
MILITARY STRATEGY
MISSILES
NATIONAL DEFENSE
NATIONAL SECURITY
NORTH AMERICA
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
REVIEWS
RISK ASSESSMENT
SECURITY
USA
USSR
WARFARE
WEAPONS