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Bombing to provoke : rockets, missiles, and drones as instruments of fear and coercion / Jaganath Sankaran

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Bombing to provoke : rockets, missiles, and drones as instruments of fear and coercion / Jaganath Sankaran
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • Oxford New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University press
Date de copyright
  • C 2024
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (X-212 p.) : ill., graph., tabl. ; 24 cm
ISBN
  • 978-0-1977-9262-9
  • 0-19-779262-6
  • 978-0-1977-9263-6
  • 0-19-779263-4
EAN
  • 9780197792636 br.
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 363.325
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Notes bibliogr. p. 125-204. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Introduction Bombing to provoke : the coercive logic of aerospace weapons Hitler's weapons of vengeance Missiles and the war of the cities Saddam's Scuds Hezbollah's Katyusha rockets and the rules of engagement Houthis and the "flying lawnmowers" Conclusion
Résumé ou extrait
  • "The rapid proliferation and growing sophistication of aerospace weapons--rockets, missiles, and drones--have altered the landscape of warfare. The influence of these 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. In Bombing to Provoke, Jaganath Sankaran argues that it is not what these aerospace weapons physically do but what they prompt the target state to do in response that matters for understanding their coercive effect. By threatening a chemical, biological, or nuclear strike or demonstrating the ability to bombard the target's economic and political core repeatedly, aerospace weapons coerce by weaponizing fear and triggering a sense of defenselessness. Sankaran provides a series of historical and current case studies to show how these fears amplify the political vulnerabilities of the target state, coercing it to divert substantial military resources away from other vital missions to redress the threat. This scenario is playing out in real time right now in both the Russo-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza theaters, both of which are seeing barrages of cross-border missile and rocket fire aimed at weakening the target's resolve. 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." (4e de couv.)
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