Weapon of choice : small arms and the culture of military innovation

Weapon of choice small arms and the culture of military innovation

Introduction: From My Cold, Dead Hands. - 1. Technology and Culture: Guns and Innovation. - 2. Battlefield Demands: The Views of the Infantry. - 3. Engineering the Battlefield: Defining the Requirement. - 4. The Science of Killing. - 5. The Bureaucracy as Battlefield. - 6. Alliance Politics and NATO...

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1. Verfasser: Ford, Matthew C. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London Hurst & Company 2017
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Military weapons > Technological innovations > Firearms > History > Kleinwaffe > Militärtechnik > Technischer Fortschritt > Militär > Innovation > Rüstungsindustrie > Entwicklung > Waffe > Gerät > Erprobung > Anforderung > Beschaffung > NATO > Schusswaffe > Geschichte 1900-2017
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: From My Cold, Dead Hands. - 1. Technology and Culture: Guns and Innovation. - 2. Battlefield Demands: The Views of the Infantry. - 3. Engineering the Battlefield: Defining the Requirement. - 4. The Science of Killing. - 5. The Bureaucracy as Battlefield. - 6. Alliance Politics and NATO Standardisation: Interests, Power, Rationality. - 7. I it Gucci? Industry, Status Anxiety and the FN Minimi. - 8. From the Mundane to the Sophisticated: Military Innovation Studies and the Question of Power
Beschreibung:xii, 248 S.
Tab., Reg., Lit. S. 225-236
ISBN:9781849046503
978-1-84904-650-3