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The Resource Carnage and connectivity : landmarks in the decline of conventional military power, David Betz, (electronic resource)

Carnage and connectivity : landmarks in the decline of conventional military power, David Betz, (electronic resource)

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This book examines the disorienting impact on war of the burgeoning connectivity of ideas, people, and things. It argues that the Western perception of warfare has shifted from one of occasional and distant occurrences of well-defined conflicts to a stream of more connected and ill-defined wars and disasters. War in itself has not changed but warfare ✹ "how we fight" ✹ continues to transform. The book focuses on the technological motor of this transformation, of which the putative information age is the latest, aggressive, but not unique phase. The obsessive pursuit by an array of actors in the military and political fields of a "fantasy of war", seduced by the information technological logics of speed, precision, and absolute victory is the primary source of the diminution of war's utility. The reality of warfare in the past, today, and over ever-extending horizons is inconclusiveness, uncertainty, and chance
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eng
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Carnage and connectivity : landmarks in the decline of conventional military power
Title
Carnage and connectivity
Title remainder
landmarks in the decline of conventional military power
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David Betz
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
This book examines the disorienting impact on war of the burgeoning connectivity of ideas, people, and things. It argues that the Western perception of warfare has shifted from one of occasional and distant occurrences of well-defined conflicts to a stream of more connected and ill-defined wars and disasters. War in itself has not changed but warfare ✹ "how we fight" ✹ continues to transform. The book focuses on the technological motor of this transformation, of which the putative information age is the latest, aggressive, but not unique phase. The obsessive pursuit by an array of actors in the military and political fields of a "fantasy of war", seduced by the information technological logics of speed, precision, and absolute victory is the primary source of the diminution of war's utility. The reality of warfare in the past, today, and over ever-extending horizons is inconclusiveness, uncertainty, and chance
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1969-
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Betz, David
Dewey number
355.02
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Oxford scholarship online.
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  • War (Philosophy)
  • Military art and science
  • Military doctrine
  • Strategy
  • Denial of service attacks
  • War and society
Target audience
specialized
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Carnage and connectivity : landmarks in the decline of conventional military power, David Betz, (electronic resource)
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190264857.001.0001
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
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EDZ0001385978
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9780190618513
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)951230189
Label
Carnage and connectivity : landmarks in the decline of conventional military power, David Betz, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190264857.001.0001
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Control code
EDZ0001385978
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9780190618513
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)951230189

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