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Brown, Neville.

Global instability and strategic crisis / Neville Brown. - New York : Routledge, 2004. - xix, 318 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge advances in international relations and politics ; 26 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: Global Instability and Strategic Revision -- Preface -- The Author -- The Strategic Revolution -- 1. Through 11 September -- (a) A Revolution Unfolds, 1985-2001 -- (b) Explosive Excision -- 2. The Poverty of Strategy -- 3. A War on Terror? -- 4. Saddam, Slow Decline and Rapid Fall -- Limited World War? -- 5. Social Instability -- (a) Upheavals Within? -- (b) Ultimate Limits to Growth -- (c) The Zen Zone -- 6. Macabre Lethality -- (a) Lethal Gases and Toxins -- (b) Martial Microbes -- (c) Fissile Ambiguity -- (d) Undercover Nuclear Attack -- 7. The Ascent of the Missile -- Defense Against Missiles -- 8. Ballistic Encounter -- (a) A Checkered Progression -- (b) Rigor, the First Victim? -- 9. Terrestrial Coverage -- (a) Defense from the Surface -- (b) The AirBorne Laser -- 10. The Heavens Subverted? -- (a) Celestial Awareness -- (b) Global Engagement -- (c) Information through Space -- The Quest for Strategy -- 11. Pax Atlantica -- 12. Arms in Moderation -- 13. Planetary Internationalism -- 14. Strategy Transcended -- (a) Open Conspiracy? -- (b) Celestial Encounter -- Appendix A Geodesy and Geophysics -- Appendix B Exotic Technologies.

041530413X (Hardback)

2003022581

GBA3V3174 bnb

010980378 Uk


Ballistic missile defenses.
Strategy.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
World politics--21st century.

Defence planning Military strategy Missile defence Overseas item Political stability Power (International relations) Terrorism

U162 / .B773 2004

355.02 / BRG
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