Table of Contents for The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas

Table of Contents

Preface

Forward by Andrew W. Marshall, Director of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defence

1.Introduction: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Innovation and Diffusion, by Leslie C. Eliason and Emily O. Goldman

Part I. Culture and Diffusion

2.Heart of the Sepoy:The Adoption and Adaptation of European Military Practice in South Asia, 1740-1805, by John A. Lynn

3.Armies of Snow and Armies of Sand:The Impact of Soviet Military Doctrine on Arab Militaries, by Michael J. Eisenstadt and Kenneth M. Pollack

4.Cooperative Diffusion through Cultural Similarity:The Postwar Anglo-Saxon Experience, by Thomas-Durell Young

Part II. Managing and Controlling Diffusion

5.Reflections on Mirror Images:Politics and Technology in the Arsenals of the Warsaw Pact, by Christopher Jones

6.The Diffusion of Nuclear Weapons, by William C. Potter

7.Revolution and Counter-Revolution:The Role of the Periphery in Technological and Conceptual Innovation, by Timothy D. Hoyt

Part III. Diffusion and Military Transformation

8.Military Diffusion in Nineteenth-Century Europe:The Napoleonic and Prussian Military Systems, by Geoffrey L. Herrera and Thomas G. Mahnken

9.Beyond Blitzkrieg:Allied Responses to Combined-Arms Armored Warfare during World War II, by Thomas G. Mahnken

10.Receptivity to Revolution:Carrier Air Power in Peace and War, by Emily O. Goldman

Part IV. Diffusion in the Information Age

11.Creating the Enemy:Global Diffusion of the Information Technology-Based Military Model, by Chris C. Demchak

12.Patterns of Commercial Diffusion, by John Arquilla

13.Conclusion:The Diffusion of Military Technology and Ideas—Theory and Practice, by Emily O. Goldman and Andrew L. Ross

Index