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Twenty-First Century Military Innovation: Technological, Organizational, and Strategic Change beyond Conventional War
Marcus SchulzkeContemporary war is as much a quest for decisive technological, organizational, and doctrinal superiority before the fighting starts as it is an effort to destroy enemy militaries during battle. Armed forces that are not actively fighting are instead actively reengineering themselves for success in the next fight and imagining what that next fight may look like. Twenty-First Century Military Innovation outlines the most theoretically important themes in contemporary warfare, especially as these appear in distinctive innovations that signal changes in states' warfighting capacities and their political goals.
Marcus Schulzke examines eight case studies that illustrate the overall direction of military innovation and important underlying themes. He devotes three chapters to new weapons technologies (drones, cyberweapons, and nonlethal weapons), two chapters to changes in the composition of state military forces (private military contractors and special operations forces), and three chapters to strategic and tactical changes (targeted killing, population-centric counterinsurgency, and degradation). Each case study includes an accessible introduction to the topic area, an overview of the ongoing scholarly debates surrounding that topic, and the most important theoretical implications. An engaging overview of the themes that emerge with military innovation, this book will also attract readers interested in particular topic areas.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication
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Contents
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Introduction
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Part I. Technological Innovations
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1. War by Proxy
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2. The Digital Battlespace
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3. War without Casualties
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Part II. Organizational Innovations
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4. Buying Victory
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5. Emulating the Enemy
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Part III. Strategic Innovations
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6. Naming Enemies
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7. Everyone Is an Ally
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8. The Minimization of War
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Conclusion
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Footnotes
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Bibliography
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Index
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- 978-0-472-13313-0 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-22041-0 (ebook)