ISBN10: 0275962954, ISBN13: 9780275962951, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 0275962954, ISBN13: 9780275962951, [publisher: Praeger] Hardcover 1st printing. "The military is moving slowly but surely toward a world in which weapons will be stationed in outer space, and officials argue that these developments are essential to the maintenance of US national security in the post-Cold War world".--Publisher's synopsis. Some, overall very light, amount of highlighting, otherwise fine.
[Ottawa, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 0275962954, ISBN13: 9780275962951, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The military is moving slowly but surely toward a world in which weapons will be stationed in outer space, and officials argue that these developments are essential to the maintenance of US national security in the post-Cold War world. Handberg explores these recent proposals for change and assesses the policy implications that might well result in a challenge to proponents for the militarization of space. Taking the reader through the first Sputnik launch and then the Gulf War, the first space war, Handberg introduces his audience to a broad overview of space as an arena for the conduct of military activity. He argues that the new policies are likely to result in a world that is less, not more, secure.Both technologically and organizationally, the Gulf War served as a watershed for military and political leaders. As a result, the great changes occurring across the spectrum of space activities, as well as the commercial applications of space, have become particularly critical to the field. Handberg argues that one unintended outcome of current policy decisions could well be a resumption of the global arms race as powers jockey for positions in the heavens. Too much of the current military advocacy is premised upon temporary advantages, both military and economic, which will dissipate in time. The political leadership of the ...
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