MILITARY SCIENCE
AND ENGINEERING
ANIL MITRA PHD, COPYRIGHT © 1985
REFORMATTED and ABRIDGED June 4, 2003
RELATED: MODERN ENGINEERING | ENGINEERING EDUCATION | ENGINEERING and science BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTENTS
3 WAR, OPERATIONS AND MILITARY SCIENCE
3.1 Theories and nature of war
3.3 Practice of war, military science
3.3.1 Search for principles, operations research
3.3.2 Strategic planning and tactical systems
3.3.3 Strategic leadership and war planning
3.3.4 Simulation, readiness and deployment of systems
3.3.6 Fundamentals of logistics
6 Information, intelligence and control
6.1.1 Mobilization of civilian research establishment
6.1.2 Technology of information
6.1.3 Warning and detection systems
6.1.5 Military and civilian police
7.3.1 Primitive classifications
7.3.2 Non-ballistic “weapons” and instruments
7.5 Protective and defense systems
7.5.4 Camouflage and decoy systems
7.5.5 Warning and detection systems: see earlier section
7.5.6 Antimissile missiles: deployment techniques and launch systems
7.5.7 Systems approach to defense
8.1 Systems approach to defense
8.2 Systems approach to offense; maintaining balance of power
The paradox of peace is that despite the desire for peace, it has not been a permanent state of civilization. Relative global stability has been achieved in the twentieth century by the build-up of massive and unprecedented power - and risk - of global destruction…
The balance of power is not too complex in its relations for comprehension but its dynamics seem ponderous. Also, reality or truth in the politics of power is elusive. These factors result in a situation where we can easily imagine a world of peace and security while such a world actually eludes us
Ethological approaches
Psychological approaches
State as a cause of war
Nationalism as a cause of war
Role of special interest groups
War as an aspect of social conduct [that is, not as an aberration]
Sources of laws of war
Justice and legality in the initiation of war
Standards in the conduct of war
Area of combat
Neutral states
Distinguishing between combatants and noncombatants
Distinguishing between military and civilian
Prisoners of war
The methods of destruction
War at sea
War by aircraft
Conventions on the termination of war
Definition and punishment of war crimes
Relation between strategy and tactics
Relation to logistics, systems analysis
Manpower deployment: land, sea, air
Manpower delivery: land transport, marines, airborne divisions, commandos
Guerrilla warfare
History
Strategy and tactics
Physical and social components of guerrilla warfare
Counter-guerrilla warfare
Legal status of guerrillas
Weapons delivery and deployment [see Military Systems]
Military structure: general and field operations
Nature and consequences of nuclear weapons
Logic of nuclear strategy
Strategic posture of superpowers since 1945
Strategy of Western alliance
Soviet strategy
Chinese strategy
Non-aligned nations
Proliferation and its consequences
Combined strategy of nuclear and conventional systems including guerrilla warfare and terrorism
Tactical formation
Tactics of attack
Defensive and defensive tactics
Modern naval tactics
Air tactics
Use of aircraft with ground forces
Influence of missile development
Recent air tactics
Guerrilla tactics
Integration of land, sea, and air tactics
Tactics in view of nuclear weapons
Relation of logistics to mobilization
Components of logistics
Special features of naval logistics
Issue of power versus movement
Logistics of combined conventional and nuclear systems
Combat engineering: tactical engineer support on the battlefield, weapons maintenance, military communications
Strategic support: construction of airfields and depots, improvement of ports, road and rail communications, bridges, fortification, camouflage projects, aircraft battery and searchlight installations, bomb-shelters, installation and maintenance of strategic and tactical nuclear systems, storage and distribution of fuels
Ancillary support: such as, provision and distribution of maps, disposal of unexploded bombs and warheads
Development of military systems: such as mentioned above, mining, aviation, missile guidance and strategic systems, tanks, weapons, bridges, road systems, airport construction and surfacing techniques, tracking, navigation and locating devices, chemical and nuclear explosives - Manhattan Project, strategic and tactical nuclear systems
Peacetime applications: civil engineering functions: dams, hydroelectric projects, irrigation and flood control, coastal engineering and harbors, disaster relief - earthquake, flood, and hurricane
Military bureaucracy
Professional soldier
Military organization, purposes, patterns and relation to operations
Military community
Recruitment and social control
Auxiliary functions of armed forces
Domestic functions
Conflict management
Militarization of politics
Conditions of military intervention
Persons subject to military law
Offenses against military law
Summary punishment
Courts-martial
Appeals
Wartime procedures
Economic and social mobilization
Industrial, food, energy, technological production, and military organization of industry
Resource and manpower delivery and transportation and transportation systems
Maintenance of permanent military forces and systems
Conservation of resources, rationing, substitution
Modern military budgeting
Socio-political motivation, education
Moral commitment and compulsory recruitment
Mercenaries
National Guard, civilian defense systems, civilian corps - incendiary, medical, observation and defense
Consequences and scenario analysis
Applied sociology, psychology and economics
Technology of reconstruction
Electromagnetic and acoustic sensors
Modern technology and future developments
Warning systems
Modern and future systems
Military communication
Electric signaling
Radio and satellite communications
Laser communications
Codes
Military, civilian, social and international intelligence and counter-intelligence land, naval, air, space systems
Infiltration and covert operations
Mobilization of foreign social, industrial, research
Defense and military establishments
Friendly and antagonistic nations
Propaganda, scenario deployment
Military and civilian police
Hierarchical structure of above systems, including general military systems for efficiency, cover-up, anti-detection and prevention of reverse information flow, false information
Hierarchical structure of above systems, including general military systems for efficiency, cover-up, anti-detection and prevention of reverse information flow, false information
Weapons
Delivery
Protection
Detection and communication
Shock weapons, missile weapons, siege systems, land and sea carriers, naval arms, systems and tactics
Chemical, biological, and nuclear [as toxins] warfare
Genetic
Climatic warfare, induction of catastrophes, floods, earthquakes, and so on
Psychological warfare
Economic warfare
The types are physical, pneumatic and hydraulic, electromagnetic, chemical, nuclear
Artillery
Small arms
Ammunition
Propellants and explosives
Projectiles
Fuses
Rounds
Rockets and missile systems; mines and grenades
Nuclear weapons
Fission
Thermonuclear
Deployment
Road
Track
All terrain
Amphibious vehicles
Attack carriers
Amphibious carriers
Battleships [obsolete]
Cruisers
Destroyers
Super destroyers
Patrol boats and other small ships
Amphibians, mine craft, service ships and other auxiliaries
Nuclear propulsion
Submarines
Anti-ship and antisubmarine measures and devices
Fighters
Bombers
Fighter-bombers
Naval aircraft
Reconnaissance aircraft
Air transport
Air tankers
Jet and rocket propulsion
Supersonic and hypersonic vehicles
Automatic guidance systems
VSTOL craft
Helicopters
Reconnaissance satellites
Future systems
Pillboxes, bunkers, bomb shelters, trenches, coastal batteries
Nuclear fortifications and shelters; conventional fortresses
Tanks
Airborne and amphibious vehicles
Armored personnel carriers
Strategic defense initiative: “Star wars”
Warning
Detection
Land, sea, air, space-based systems
Prevention of launch: first strike [not regarded as feasible]
Prevention of delivery [not regarded as feasible]
Protection against strike
Post strike system
Evacuation and prevention through social mobilization
Maintenance of viable conventional forces and systems
Prevention: see section below
Knowledge of offensive systems
Systems approach: above, this page
Arms supplies and weapons control
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