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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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Autor principal: O'Hanlon, Michael E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Army.
États-Unis. > Army > Planification.
United States. > Army > Planning.
Planering.
Prognoser.
Försvarspolitik.
Militärväsen.
War > Forecasting.
Military planning.
Military art and science > Forecasting.
Armed Forces > Planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Security (National & International)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
Land forces & warfare.
Guerre > Prevision.
Art et science militaires > Prevision.
Planification militaire > États-Unis.
Military planning > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (254 pages).
ISBN:9780815726913
Acceso:Open Access

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