Download Modern Warfare, Intelligence and Deterrence: The Technologies That Are Transforming Them: The Economist AudioBook Free
For those who desire to be smart about our ability to wage war and to protect ourselves - and where much of the world's vast amounts of us dollars on defence spending moves. The Panzerfaust-3, a German shoulder-fired heat-seeking antitank missile, can punch by way of a metre of sturdy steel-far more than any armoured vehicle could bring. The MPR-500, an Israeli perfection bomb, can hammer through several storeys of your building and explode over a chosen floor. These and myriad other armed service and intelligences technologies are changing the world. This Economist book describes these rising technologies and places them in the bigger context of today's politics, diplomacy, business and communal issues. It shows how work to gain wars or keep the peace are traveling extensive and multifold technical advances. Generally speaking, defence technologies will continue to provide enormous advantages to advanced, Western armed forces. The book is organised into five parts: "Land and Sea"; "Air and Space"; "The Computer Factor"; "Intelligence and Spycraft"; and "THE STREET Ahead", which examines the approaching challenges for american armies, such as new wars against insurgents operating out of civilian areas. Comprising an array of the best writing on the subject from The Economist, each part comes with an introduction linking the technical developments to politics, diplomatic, business and other civilian things. For anyone who would like to know just how smart the global war, defence and intelligence machine is, this will be revealing and interesting reading.
