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Military Globalization: Geography, Strategy, and Weaponry

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Pages:384
ISBN:1-4955-0623-1
978-1-4955-0623-9
Price:$239.95
The focus of this monograph is to look at how the world reconstitutes itself into a single geostrategic space. It looks the process chronologically, beginning with pre-Modern regional military expansions and continues to the present day.

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"Military globalization entails the increase in range and decrease in time of power necessary to accomplish objectives (compression of space-time factor). Military globalization is precluded pre-Modern regional military expansions. The regional and global stages constitute two scales of essentially one continuous process. The book includes political developments intersected with military globalization, such as expansion of political systems, imperial expansion and alliance politics."

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Multi Polar Globalization

Prelude

The Colombian Epoch

Global Closure

Global Warfare

Part II: Unipolar Globalization

US Strategic Globalization

From Continentalism to Globalism
Air-Age Globalism
The Eurasian Focus

The Cold War

Globalizing Monroe
The British Succession
Containment
Alliances and Bases
The Arctic Frontier
The Nuclear Triad
Space

The Post-Cold War Period

Engagement and Enlargement
Alliances
The Containment of China and Russia
Bases and Installations
The Global Force Posture
The Unified Combatant Command
Global Guidelines

The End of Greatness

Conclusion

Cited Bibliography

Index