A revealing account of the prevalence—and alarming ubiquity—of military targeting, and how it has become a self-propelling worldview driven by dominance, violence, and power.
An analysis of advances in military technology that illustrates the importance of organizational flexibility in both an attacker's innovations and an opponent's adaptations.
Edited by Jens Bjering, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Solveig Gade and Christine Strandmose Toft
ISBN: 9780262048736
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 18, 2024
A provocative edited collection that takes an original approach toward the black box of military technology, surveillance, and AI—and reveals the aesthetic dimension of warfare.
Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative
by Aaron Bateman
ISBN: 9780262547369
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 7, 2024
A new and provocative take on the formerly classified history of accelerating superpower military competition in space in the late Cold War and beyond.
Edited by Ramaswamy Sridharan and Antonio F. Pensa
ISBN: 9780262549950
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 5, 2023
The development of deep space surveillance technology and its later application to near-Earth surveillance, covering work at Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 2000.
With Robert G. Atkins, Alan D. Bernard, Don M. Boroson, David J. Ebel, Aryeh Feder, Jack G. Fleischman, Michael P. Shatz, Robert Stein and Stephen D. Weiner
ISBN: 9780262549721
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 31, 2023
A guide to defense systems analysis by experts who have worked on systems that range from air defense to space defense.
A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture.
Drone warfare described from the perspectives of drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, international law, military thinkers, and others.
