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Innovation shapes wars, and twelve studies by former faculty
members of West Point's United States Military Academy examine
specific cases of past and present military innovation. The
complex, competitive, and dynamic environment that defines war
drives combatants to seek solutions to potentially lethal problems.
As some solutions prove effective, gain traction, and win
emulation, they follow a path of innovation. The chapters address a
broad array of innovations, including in weapon technology,
strategy, research and development philosophy, organization of the
military instrument, and leveraging maps for strategic goals.
Geographically, the examples in this volume span four continents
and the Mediterranean Sea, and chronologically they proceed from
the twelfth century to the twenty first. Collectively, the studies
point to the interconnected value of pursuing constructive
solutions to challenges, networking interdisciplinary forms of
knowledge, appropriately balancing expectations and capabilities,
and understanding an innovation as a journey rather than as an
episodic event.
The Other Space Race is a unique look at the early U.S. space
program and how it both shaped and was shaped by politics during
the Cold War. Eisenhower's ""New Look"" expanded the role of the
Air Force in national security, and ultimately allowed ambitious
aerospace projects, namely the ""Dyna-Soar,"" a bomber equipped
with nuclear weapons that would operate in space. Eisenhower's
space policy was purely practical, creating a strong deterrent
against the use of nuclear arms against the United States. With the
Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957, the political climate changed,
and space travel became part of the United States' national
discourse. Sambaluk explores what followed, including the scuttling
of the ""Dyna-Soar"" program and the transition from Eisenhower's
space policy to John Kennedy's. This well-argued, well-researched
book gives much needed perspective on the Cold War's influence on
space travel and it's relation to the formation of public policy.
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