Technology and the American Way of War

by Thomas G. Mahnken

Book Overview

No nation in recent history has placed greater emphasis on the role of technology in planning and waging war than the United States. In World War II the wholesale mobilization of American science and technology culminated in the detonation of the atomic bomb. Competition with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, combined with the U.S. Navy's culture of distributed command and the rapid growth of information technology, spawned the concept of network-centric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023112337X
• ISBN13: 9780231123372
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher