Ebook: Modern warfare, intelligence and deterrence: the technologies that are transforming them

The Panzerfaust-3, a German shoulder-fired heat-seeking antitank missile, can punch through a metre of solid steel-far more than any armoured vehicle could carry. The MPR-500, an Israeli precision bomb, can hammer through several storeys of a building and explode on a chosen floor. These and myriad other military and intelligences technologies are changing the world. This Economist book describes these emerging technologies and places them in the larger context of today's politics, diplomacy, business and social issues. It shows how efforts to win wars or keep the peace are driving.;Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part 1 Land and sea; 1 Designing, and countering, new weaponry; 2 Upgrades for combatants; 3 Powering up, differently; 4 New materials, new capabilities; 5 iPod militaries; 6 Nukes; Part 2 Air and space; 7 Attacks from above; 8 The growing drone dimension; 9 Air ops, for less; 10 Aircraft and flight, enhanced; 11 Militarising space; Part 3 The computer factor; 12 The new realm of cyberwar; 13 Better equations, smarter machines; 14 Propaganda ops, online; Part 4 Intelligence and spycraft.