LEADER 03222nam 22006612 450 001 9910782517203321 005 20221003220657.0 010 $a1-107-17076-1 010 $a1-280-95945-2 010 $a9786610959457 010 $a0-511-29630-4 010 $a1-139-13233-4 010 $a0-511-29553-7 010 $a0-511-49618-4 010 $a0-511-29394-1 010 $a0-511-29474-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000688467 035 $a(EBL)307086 035 $a(OCoLC)437186699 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289136 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11238090 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289136 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10384884 035 $a(PQKB)10120931 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511496189 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC307086 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL307086 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10188953 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL95945 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000688467 100 $a20090306d2007|||| uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArms, economics and British strategy $efrom Dreadnoughts to hydrogen bombs /$fG.C. Peden 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 384 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge military histories 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 1 $a0-521-10838-1 311 1 $a0-521-86748-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 352-366) and index. 327 $aThe dreadnought era, 1904-1914 -- The first world war -- Retrenchment and rearmament, 1919-1939 -- The second world war -- The impacts of the atomic bomb and the cold war, 1945-1954 -- The hydrogen bomb, the economy and decolonisation, 1954-1969. 330 $aThis book integrates strategy, technology and economics and presents a new way of looking at twentieth-century military history and Britain's decline as a great power. G. C. Peden explores how from the Edwardian era to the 1960s warfare was transformed by a series of innovations, including dreadnoughts, submarines, aircraft, tanks, radar, nuclear weapons and guided missiles. He shows that the cost of these new weapons tended to rise more quickly than national income and argues that strategy had to be adapted to take account of both the increased potency of new weapons and the economy's diminishing ability to sustain armed forces of a given size. Prior to the development of nuclear weapons, British strategy was based on an ability to wear down an enemy through blockade, attrition (in the First World War) and strategic bombing (in the Second), and therefore power rested as much on economic strength as on armaments. 410 0$aCambridge military histories. 517 3 $aArms, Economics & British Strategy 607 $aGreat Britain$xMilitary policy 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory, Military 676 $a355.033041 700 $aPeden$b G. C.$0148204 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782517203321 996 $aArms, economics and British strategy$93716811 997 $aUNINA