Jaganath Sankaran

Bombing to Provoke

Rockets, Missiles, and Drones as Instruments of Fear and Coercion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197792629
• ISBN-10: 0197792626
• Artikelnr.: 71161290

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Coercive Logic of Aerospace Weapons
Chapter 3: Hitler's Weapons of Vengeance
Chapter 4: Missiles and the War of the Cities
Chapter 5: Saddam's Scuds
Chapter 6: Hezbollah's Katyusha Rockets and the Rules of Engagement
Chapter 7: Houthis and the "Flying Lawn Mowers"
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Notes