Bombing to Provoke - Sankaran, Jaganath
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The influence of aerospace weapons on the battlefield is felt profoundly, yet the mechanism of coercion by which these weapons alter the will of the adversary is poorly understood. This book argues that it is not what these weapons physically do but how they weaponize fear and trigger a sense of defenselessness that matters for understanding their coercive effect. For anyone seeking to understand why states at war in the age of aerospace weapon warfare operate and react in the ways that they do, this book's methodical dissection of the strategic rationale behind these weapons makes it necessary reading.…mehr

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The influence of aerospace weapons on the battlefield is felt profoundly, yet the mechanism of coercion by which these weapons alter the will of the adversary is poorly understood. This book argues that it is not what these weapons physically do but how they weaponize fear and trigger a sense of defenselessness that matters for understanding their coercive effect. For anyone seeking to understand why states at war in the age of aerospace weapon warfare operate and react in the ways that they do, this book's methodical dissection of the strategic rationale behind these weapons makes it necessary reading.
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Autorenporträt
Jaganath Sankaran is Assistant Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin and a nonresident fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. He spent the first four years of his career as a defense scientist with the Indian Missile R&D establishment, and has held fellowships at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and the RAND Corporation. He has held visiting positions at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS) at the U.S. Air University, Tsinghua University, and the National Institute for Defense Studies.