Arms Economics And British Strategy

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139462921

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Arms, Economics and British Strategy by G. C. Peden Pdf

This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments.

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521867487

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Arms, Economics and British Strategy by G. C. Peden Pdf

This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments.

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0511295537

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Arms, Economics and British Strategy by G. C. Peden Pdf

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0511296304

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Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs. Cambridge Military Histories. by G. C. Peden Pdf

This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments.

Author : Keith Hartley
Publisher : Economics of Big Business
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Weapons industry
ISBN : 191111624X

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The Economics of Arms by Keith Hartley Pdf

This book explains how the arms industry makes its money. Keith Hartley offers an authoritative nontechnical introduction to the economics of arms industries and considers future trends, such as whether arms industries are better under state or private ownership, and how they can meet the challenge of new threats in different forms.

Author : Benjamin Coombs
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472512826

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British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945 by Benjamin Coombs Pdf

British Tank Production and the War Economy, 1934-1945 explores the under-researched experiences of the British tank industry in the context of the pressures of war. Benjamin Coombs explores the various demands placed on British industry during the Second World War, looking at the political, military and strategy pressures involved. By comparing the British tank programme with the Canadian, American, Russian and Australian equivalents, this study offers an international perspective on this aspect of the war economy. Topics covered include the premature contraction of the tank programme and dependence on American armour, the supply of the Valentine tank to the Russian authorities and the ongoing employment of the tank in the postwar peacetime markets.

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1009201999

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Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement by G. C. Peden Pdf

"There are few more contrasting historical reputations than those of Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain. On the one hand, there is the hero who led Britain in its finest hour when it stood alone against Nazi Germany in 1940. On the other, there is the man of Munich who attempted to appease Hitler by agreeing to his territorial demands on Czechoslovakia in 1938. Appeasement subsequently became a byword for weakness and shameful failure to stand up to dictators. Even today diplomatic compromise with an authoritarian regime is frequently criticised as another Munich. Churchill is dominant in history partly because of what he achieved as prime minister but also because of what he wrote in his best-selling history of the Second World War. Volume one, which appeared in 1948, established an enduring narrative of government failure to heed his warnings and of missed opportunities to halt Hitler before Germany became too powerful. Churchill's account still influences popular perceptions of Chamberlain. In contrast, academic historians have debated the pros and cons of appeasement for six decades without reaching a consensus. Surprisingly, this book is the first to compare Churchill and Chamberlain systematically in relation to both foreign and defence policy. It places their ideas in the context of Britain's power to influence international affairs through armed force or diplomacy, and of advice from the Foreign Office, the Treasury, the armed forces and the intelligence services as to what should be done. By doing so it demonstrates not only the uncertainty facing statesmen in the 1930s but also why historians find it difficult to agree what would have happened if statesmen had taken different decisions"--

Author : Jurgen Brauer,Paul Dunne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134329465

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Arms Trade and Economic Development by Jurgen Brauer,Paul Dunne Pdf

With the US invasion of Iraq, the issue of arms trading is once again at the forefront of world events. Arms-importing countries often ask their suppliers to 'offset' the cost by reinvesting some of the money in their country.

Author : Keith Krause
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521558662

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Arms and the State by Keith Krause Pdf

This book analyses the structure and motive forces that shape the global arms transfer and production system.

Author : Jonathan Mallory House
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Armies
ISBN : 9781428915831

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Toward Combined Arms Warfare by Jonathan Mallory House Pdf

Author : Emily Goldman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804774338

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Power in Uncertain Times by Emily Goldman Pdf

This book examines America's evolving strategy on the international security environment, and comprehensively analyzes how different strategies position states to compete in the present and future, manage risk, and prevail despite uncertainty.

Author : J. Schofield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137298454

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Strategic Nuclear Sharing by J. Schofield Pdf

The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics, but sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich history from its beginnings in the Second World War.

Author : William D James,Research Fellow in the Centre for Grand Strategy William D James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198896609

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British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony by William D James,Research Fellow in the Centre for Grand Strategy William D James Pdf

Employing several historical case studies between 1940-2003 and marshalling a host of primary sources, William D. James argues that British politicians and officials have thought in grand strategic terms under American hegemony - even if they do not realise or admit to this.

Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199911509

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Britain's War Machine by David Edgerton Pdf

The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests, and in command of a global production system. Rather than belittled by a Nazi behemoth, Britain arguably had the world's most advanced mechanized forces. It had not only a great empire, but allies large and small. Edgerton shows that Britain fought on many fronts and its many home fronts kept it exceptionally well supplied with weapons, food and oil, allowing it to mobilize to an extraordinary extent. It created and deployed a vast empire of machines, from the humble tramp steamer to the battleship, from the rifle to the tank, made in colossal factories the world over. Scientists and engineers invented new weapons, encouraged by a government and prime minister enthusiastic about the latest technologies. The British, indeed Churchillian, vision of war and modernity was challenged by repeated defeat at the hands of less well-equipped enemies. Yet the end result was a vindication of this vision. Like the United States, a powerful Britain won a cheap victory, while others paid a great price. Putting resources, machines and experts at the heart of a global rather than merely imperial story, Britain's War Machine demolishes timeworn myths about wartime Britain and gives us a groundbreaking and often unsettling picture of a great power in action.

Author : Jonathan Fennell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030954

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Fighting the People's War by Jonathan Fennell Pdf

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British and Commonwealth armies. He analyses why the great battles were won and lost and how the men that fought went on to change the world.