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Subject: Arms, Economics and British Strategy From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs
| *This page intentionally left blank *Arms, Economics and British Strategy This 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 |
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