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Information warfare and electronic warfare systems
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ISBN: 1608077063 9781608077069 1608077055 9781608077052 9781608077052 Year: 2013 Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : Artech House, IEEE Xplore,

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Information warfare is emerging as the new war fighting paradigm of the U.S. and many of its allies. This book is the first in the field to address communication electronic warfare (EW) systems in the context of information warfare. Authored by a recognized leading authority, the book includes a unique formulation of EW system performance and presents results of system simulations that have not appeared previously in any related literature. Essential reading for EW engineers and researchers working in defense, aerospace, and military capacities, the book explores the properties of information,


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International humanitarian law and the changing technology of war
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ISBN: 9004229493 9789004229495 9789004229488 9004229485 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,

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Increasingly, war is and will be fought by machines – and virtual networks linking machines - which, to varying degrees, are controlled by humans. This book explores the legal challenges for armed forces resulting from the development and use of new military technologies – automated and autonomous weapon systems, cyber weapons, “non-lethal” weapons and advanced communications - for the conduct of warfare. The contributions, each written by scholars and military officers with expertise in International Humanitarian Law (IHL), provide analysis and recommendations for armed forces as to how these new technologies may be used in accordance with international law. Moreover, the chapters provide suggestions for military doctrine to ensure continued compliance with IHL during this ever-more-rapid evolution of technology.


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Information at sea : shipboard command and control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa
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ISBN: 1421410842 9781421410845 9781421410265 1421410265 Year: 2013 Publisher: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press,


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Eternal harvest : the legacy of American bombs in Laos
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ISBN: 9781934159491 1934159492 Year: 2013 Publisher: San Francisco, California, USA : ThingsAsian Press,

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Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern spent more than seven years traveling in Laos, talking to farmers, scrap-metal hunters, people who make and use tools from UXO, people who hunt for death beneath the earth and render it harmless. With their words and photographs, they reveal the beauty of Laos, the strength of Laotians, and the commitment of bomb-disposal teams. People take precedence in this account, which is deeply personal without ever becoming a polemic.


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Musket, map and money : how military technology shaped geopolitics and economics
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ISBN: 8376560581 3110399261 Year: 2013 Publisher: London, England ; : De Gruyter Open,

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In his book Jimmy Teng proposes an alternative reading of world economic history. Using military technology as his point of reference, the author analyses how changes in military technology shaped international political relations and competition between states in world history, influencing economic development.


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International humanitarian law and the changing technology of war
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ISBN: 9789004229488 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,


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The Defense Production Act : elements and considerations
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ISBN: 1629480894 9781629480893 9781629480886 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Novinka,

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The Defense Production Act of 1950 (DPA), provides the President a broad set of authorities to ensure that domestic industry can meet national defense requirements. In the DPA, Congress has found that ""the security of the United States is dependent on the ability of the domestic industrial base to supply materials and services for the national defense and to prepare for and respond to military conflicts, natural or man-caused disasters, or acts of terrorism within the United States."" Through the DPA, the President can, among other activities, prioritize contracts for goods and services, and


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War powers : the politics of constitutional authority
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ISBN: 1299476317 1400846773 9781400846771 9781299476318 9780691157221 0691157227 0691168032 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer a single legal answer to that question. But its structure and values indicate a vision of a well-functioning constitutional politics, one that enables the branches of government themselves to generate good answers to this question for the circumstances of their own times. Mariah Zeisberg shows that what matters is not that the branches enact the same constitutional settlement for all conditions, but instead how well they bring their distinctive governing capacities to bear on their interpretive work in context. Because the branches legitimately approach constitutional questions in different ways, interpretive conflicts between them can sometimes indicate a successful rather than deficient interpretive politics. Zeisberg argues for a set of distinctive constitutional standards for evaluating the branches and their relationship to one another, and she demonstrates how observers and officials can use those standards to evaluate the branches' constitutional politics. With cases ranging from the Mexican War and World War II to the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Iran-Contra scandal, War Powers reinterprets central controversies of war powers scholarship and advances a new way of evaluating the constitutional behavior of officials outside of the judiciary.


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Arms transfers, neutrality and Britain's role in the Cold War : Anglo-Swiss relations, 1945-1958
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ISBN: 1283717077 9004234438 9789004234437 9781283717076 9004234411 9789004234413 Year: 2013 Volume: v. 79 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Great Britain was neutral Switzerland's main supplier of heavy weaponry during the early Cold War. Marco Wyss analyses this armaments relationship against the background of Anglo-Swiss relations between 1945 and 1958, and thereby assesses the role of arms transfers, neutrality and Britain, as well as the two countries' political, economic and military relations. By using multi-archival research, the author discovers 'traits of specialness' in the Anglo-Swiss relationship, analyses the incentives for Berne's weapons purchases and London's arms sales, sheds new light on the Cold War arms transfer system and the motivations of the participating states, and questions the sustainability of neutrality during the East-West conflict, as well as Britain's role from a western neutral and small power perspective.

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