If War Comes Tomorrow?: The Contours of Future Armed Conflict

by Kipp,Jacob W.

• ISBN13: 9780714648019
• ISBN10: 0714648019
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Focusing on the impact of new technologies, this book considers whether war is still a "continuation of politics by other means" or whether political, ideological and technical transformations have broken that connection.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi	(1)
Preface	vii
Introduction: the contours of future armed conflict and their interpreter: implications for national and international security policy	1	(18)
Jacob W. Kipp
1 Political and military-technical factors and armed struggle -- future wars: sources and causes	19	(28)
1 War and politics	19	(2)
2 Old and new sources of military threats	21	(17)
3 On the future of military-political blocs	38	(9)
2 Military-technical progress and its influence on the nature of armed struggle	47	(23)
1 Technological progress in arms development	50	(7)
2 Main trends of development within conventional weapons	57	(9)
3 Arms reduction and its influence on the nature of armed struggle	66	(4)
3 Distinctive features of future armed struggle	70	(57)
1 Nuclear weapons and armed struggle	70	(23)
2 Methods of conducting operations and combat actions in conventional war	93	(34)
4 Prospects for military construction	127	(31)
1 Professional armies or conscription?	127	(15)
2 Some questions of military control and organizational structure of the armed forces	142	(16)
5 Basic directions for perfection of training of the armed forces	158	(20)
Conclusion	178	(3)
Index	181