Ethics, Technology and the American Way of War: Cruise Missiles and US Security Policy

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ISBN: 9780415770644 | 0415770645
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/6/2007

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A new investigation into how the advent of precision-guided munitions affects the likelihood of US policy makers to use force. As such, this is an inquiry into the impact of ethics, strategy and military technology on the decision calculus of national leaders. Following the first Gulf War in 1991, this new study shows how US Presidents increasingly used stand-off precision guided munitions (or PGMs

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Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Theoretical approaches	p. 11
Humanity as a weapon of war	p. 13
Limited war in American strategic thought	p. 41
Tomahawk: History, technology, strategy	p. 56
Practical applications	p. 69
Operation Southern Watch - January 1993	p. 71
Operation Bushwacker - June 1993	p. 85
Operation Deliberate Force - August/September 1995	p. 98
Operation Desert Strike - September 1996	p. 113
Conclusion	p. 129
Notes	p. 136
Selected bibliography	p. 153
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Ethics, Technology and the American Way of War: Cruise Missiles and US Security Policy

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