TY - BOOK ID - 78490025 TI - American arsenal : a century of waging war PY - 2014 SN - 0199341729 0199959757 9780199959754 1306114179 9781306114172 9780199959747 0199959749 9780199341726 PB - Oxford ; NewYork : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Inventors KW - Military research KW - Military weapons KW - Weapons systems KW - Weapon systems KW - Engineering systems KW - Armaments KW - Combat weapons KW - Instruments of war KW - Munitions KW - Military supplies KW - Weapons KW - Disarmament KW - Defense research KW - Research KW - Research and development contracts, Government KW - Persons KW - History KW - History. KW - Technological innovations KW - United States KW - History, Military UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78490025 AB - When America declared war on Germany in 1917, the United States had only 200,000 men under arms, a twentieth of the German army's strength, and its planes were no match for the German air force. Less than a century later, the United States today has by far the world's largest military budget and provides over 40% of the world's armaments. In American Arsenal Patrick Coffey examines America's military transformation from an isolationist state to a world superpower. Focusing on fifteen specific developments, Coffey illustrates the unplanned, often haphazard nature of this transformation, which h ER -