Title American arsenal : a century of waging war / Patrick Coffey.

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Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, [2014]

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Edison at war -- Gassing the senator -- Mitchell's war in three dimensions -- The bombsight -- Precision bombing tested -- Napalm -- The switch -- The atomic bomb -- The weapon not used -- The Cold War and the hydrogen bomb -- Missiles -- War games -- Lessons from Vietnam -- Star Wars -- Smart bombs and drones -- Epilogue.
Summary	When America declared war on Germany in 1917, the United States had only 200,000 men under arms, a twentieth of the German army's strength, and its planes were no match for the German air force. Less than a century later, the United States today has by far the world's largest military budget and provides over 40% of the world's armaments. In American Arsenal Patrick Coffey examines America's military transformation from an isolationist state to a world superpower. Focusing on fifteen specific developments, Coffey illustrates the unplanned, often haphazard nature of this transformation, which h.
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Subject	Military weapons -- Research -- United States -- History.
	Military weapons -- Research.
	United States.
	History.
	Military weapons.
	Military weapons -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Weapons systems -- Technological innovations -- United States -- History.
	Weapons systems -- Technological innovations.
	Weapons systems.
	Inventors -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Inventors.
	Military research -- United States -- Case studies.
	Military research.
Genre/Form	Case studies.
Subject	Military history -- United States -- 20th century.
	Military history.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Case studies.
Other Form:	Print version: Coffey, Patrick. American arsenal 9780199959747 (DLC) 2013015070 (OCoLC)841206045
ISBN	9780199959754 (electronic book)
	0199959757 (electronic book)
	1306114179
	9781306114172
	9780199959747
	0199959749

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