Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness

by Risa Brooks

Creating Military Power examines how societies, cultures, political structures, and the global environment affect countries' military organizations. Unlike most analyses of countries' military power, which focus on material and basic resources--such as the size of populations, technological and industrial base, and GNP--this volume takes a more expansive view. The study's overarching argument is that states' global environments and the particularities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804753997
• ISBN13: 9780804753999
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"