Weapons for Strategic Effect How Important is Technology?

Abstract

There is no doubt that technology is important in war. While it is difficult to identify major security issues for which technology is not important, determining just how important is another matter. Despite a consensus on the salience of technology, there is little agreement on just what that means for strategic behavior. Following in the footsteps of Clausewitz, this monograph seeks to contribute to the general "theory WHICH should cast a steady light on all phenomena so that we can more easily recognize and eliminate the weeds that always spring from ignorance; it should show how one thing is related to another, and keep the important and the unimportant separate". Just how is one thing technology related to another strategy? As Clausewitz stated: "It is the task of theory,., to study the nature of ends and means." Just how is technology--the means--related to strategy the ends?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA407083

Entities

People

  • Colin S. Gray

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Aircrafts
  • Combat Areas
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Doctrine
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Naval Warfare
  • Sociopolitics
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.