Ebook: Weapon of choice: small arms and the culture of military innovation

Introduction: from my cold, dead hands -- Technology and culture guns and innovation -- Engineering the battlefield: defining the requirement -- The science of killing -- The bureaucracy as battlefield -- Alliance politics and NATO standardization: interests, power, rationality --Is it Gucci? Industry, status anxiety and the FN Minimi --From the mundane to the sophisticated: military Innovation studies and the question of power.