Arms, Economics and British Strategy
From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23492773 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G C Peden (University of Stirling, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Arms, Economics and British Strategy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511496189 |
| OpenAlex | W4245859277 |
| ISBN | 9780511496189 |
| Open Library | OL34442015M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
This book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments.
Adversary · Aeronautics · aircraft · Attrition · British military strategy · Computer security · dreadnoughts · Economics · Economy · guided missiles · International trade · Military technology · National security · naval blockade · Nuclear weapon · Nuclear weapons · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics) · Radar · Strategic bombing · submarines · tanks · war of attrition · World War I · World War II · Computer Science · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Engineering · Law · Military History and Strategy · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact · Great britain · History · History - Military · Military · Military art and science · Military history · military policy
Military Innovation and Technological Determinism
Global Britain's strategic problem East of Suez
Engine of innovation
Socially useful production in the defence industry
Britain's Withdrawal from East of Suez
Sir William Beveridge, The British Government and Plans for Food Control in Time of War, c. 1916–1941
The British warfare state and the challenge of Americanisation of Western defence1
The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and the Shaping of National Identities in the Second World War
Fighting the People's War
Imperial Japan, civilian control, and democratic reversal
Business-government relations and national economic models
The international political economy of appeasement
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Was the 600-ship navy a chimera? Budgets, force structure, and the political realities behind Reagan-era naval strategy
Operational Research as Counterfactual History
Inter- and Intra-Service Rivalries in the Battle of the Atlantic
A group of early 20th-century naval victualling finds from Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, Hampshire
Suez and Britain's Decline as a World Power
Public governance of private munitions businesses in regional Britain, the case of Wales, 1938 to 1945
The Treasury, Britain's postwar reconstruction, and the industrial intervention of the Bank of England, 1921-91
| Citations per year | 1.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |