Creating Military Power

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"This book's sensible premise is that a state's military power-often measured by gross national product, industrial capacity, population size, number of troops, and arsenal-does not necessarily determine military effectiveness... [Creating Military Power] is an excellent set of essays that specialists on military-security issues will read with much profit."-CHOICE "Rigorous social science too often treats military power as the epiphenomenon of economic or technological resources. This impressive volume helps rectify that common mistake. It explores and details how what really matters-the actual effectiveness of militaries-depends on complex social, political, diplomatic, and organizational underpinnings."-Richard K. Betts,Director, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University "Creating Military Power is creative and rigorous, attentive to historical detail, and concerned with policy implications. It will undoubtedly be read with great enthusiasm by specialists on international security in both the academy and think tanks."-Ronald R. Krebs, University of Minnesota "Comprising a conceptual framework, seven substantive chapters, a critical individual synthesis reflecting on the book itself and a summary conclusion, this edited book provides a set of constructive conceptual and empirical contributions to international relations, political science, and military studies."-H-Net