Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers 0300234090, 9780300234091

How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challenge This book by mili

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English Pages 568 Year 2023

Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
0300234090, 9780300234091

How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challenge

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This book addresses issues of legal and moral governance arising in the development, deployment, and eventual uses of em

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How has the concept of victory evolved as the nature of conflict itself has changed across time, circumstance, and cultu

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What determines the outcome for rebels in contemporary African civil wars? How are "victory" and "defeat&

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Looks at the origins of the Chinese Communist foreign policy from 1944-1946 when changes on the battlefield in China bro

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Since ancient times, there have been military operations that attempted to produce tectonic shifts in the balance of pow

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What is grand strategy and what is it good for? What are great powers, and which states are great powers today? What are

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A study by a leading Chinese scholar of international relations, developing a systematic theory of leadership explaining

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A leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and wha

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Intrigued by controversies about whether or not recent wars were won, Mandel (international affairs, Lewis and Clark Col

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