Arms Economics And British Strategy

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113946292X
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms, Economics and British Strategy written by G. C. Peden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments.

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521867481
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms, Economics and British Strategy written by G. C. Peden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments.

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511296307
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs. Cambridge Military Histories. written by G. C. Peden and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments.

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511295539
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arms, Economics and British Strategy written by G. C. Peden and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Hartley
Publisher : Economics of Big Business
ISBN 13 : 9781911116240
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Arms written by Keith Hartley and published by Economics of Big Business. This book was released on 2017 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how the arms industry makes its money. Keith Hartley offers an authoritative nontechnical introduction to the economics of arms industries and considers future trends, such as whether arms industries are better under state or private ownership, and how they can meet the challenge of new threats in different forms.

Author : Jonathan Mallory House
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428915834
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward Combined Arms Warfare written by Jonathan Mallory House and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Coombs
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472512820
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945 written by Benjamin Coombs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945 explores the under-researched experiences of the British tank industry in the context of the pressures of war. Benjamin Coombs explores the various demands placed on British industry during the Second World War, looking at the political, military and strategy pressures involved. By comparing the British tank programme with the Canadian, American, Russian and Australian equivalents, this study offers an international perspective on this aspect of the war economy. Topics covered include the premature contraction of the tank programme and dependence on American armour, the supply of the Valentine tank to the Russian authorities and the ongoing employment of the tank in the postwar peacetime markets.

Author : Paul Levine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134401566
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arms Trade, Security and Conflict written by Paul Levine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An area of huge concern to many people around the world, the economics of the Arms Industry are a vital strand that needs to be understood. This volume brings together contributors from all over the globe and focuses on this important area.

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009202014
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement written by G. C. Peden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign policy? To what extent was Chamberlain responsible for military defeats in 1940? In this new account of appeasement, G. C. Peden addresses these questions and provides a comparative analysis of Chamberlain and Churchill's views on foreign policy and strategic priorities, explores what deterrence and appeasement meant in the military, economic and political context of the 1930s and where Chamberlain and Churchill agreed and disagreed on how best to deter Germany. Beginning in 1931 when Chamberlain became Chancellor of the Exchequer, this book explores the evolution of British policy towards Germany through to the Munich Agreement and its aftermath within the context of Britain's power to influence international affairs in the 1930s and of contemporary intelligence.

Author : Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614277583
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategy and Arms written by Thomas C. Schelling and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This study is an attempt to identify the meaning of arms control in the post war period. It presents an analysis of arms control with particular emphasis on the military policy involved. The general objectives of the study is to advance some aspects of the intellectual state of the art in arms control and to provide some concrete data on the technical and strategic problems of importance. Schelling remains relevant today for his work on game theory.