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Technology and warfare - JPM656

Anglický název:	Technology and warfare
Zajišťuje:	Katedra bezpečnostních studií (23-KBS)
Fakulta:	Fakulta sociálních věd
Platnost:	od 2017 do 2017
Semestr:	oba
E-Kredity:	6
Rozsah, examinace:	1/1, Zk [HT]
Počet míst:	zimní:25 / 25 (15) letní:neurčen / neurčen (15)
Minimální obsazenost:	neomezen
4EU+:	ne
Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu:	ne
Stav předmětu:	vyučován
Jazyk výuky:	angličtina
Způsob výuky:	prezenční
Způsob výuky:	prezenční
Další informace:	https://dl1.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=4195
Poznámka:	předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán povolen pro zápis po webu při zápisu přednost, je-li ve stud. plánu předmět lze zapsat v ZS i LS

Garant:	Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Kučera, Ph.D.
Vyučující:	Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Kučera, Ph.D.
Třída:	Courses for incoming students

Termíny zkoušek Rozvrh Nástěnka

Sylabus - angličtina

Poslední úprava: Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Kučera, Ph.D. (13.09.2019)

Introduction: Theory of technological progress, revolutions in military affairs (RMA)

Objectives:

· To define concepts: technology neutrality thesis, technological determinism, and revolution in military affairs

· To identify and describe historical RMAs

Recommended literature:

· Coker, Christopher. The Future of War : The Re-Enchantment of War in the Twenty-First Century. Malden, Mass; Oxford: Blackwell Pub, 2004.

· Murray, Williamson. “Thinking about Revolutions in Military Affairs.” Joint Forces Quarterly, Summer 1997.

· Raudzens, George. ‘War-Winning Weapons: The Measurement of Technological Determinism in Military History’. The Journal of Military History 54, no. 4 (1 October 1990): 403–34. doi:10.2307/1986064.

· Waddington, David I. ‘A Field Guide to Heidegger: Understanding “The Question Concerning Technology”’. Educational Philosophy & Theory 37, no. 4 (August 2005): 567–83. doi:10.1111/j.1469-5812.2005.00141.x

Military Technology and Political System

Objectives

· To apply the concept of technological determinism in historical examples

· To explain how military technology affects political structures

Oxford-style debate

· European supranational space force

Recommended literature:

· Boot, Max. War Made New: Weapons, Warriors, and the Making of the Modern World. New York, N.Y.: Gotham Books, 2007.

· Kirkpatrick, David. ‘The Affordability of Defence Equipment’. The RUSI Journal 142, no. 3 (June 1997): 58–80. doi:10.1080/03071849708446151.

· Murray, Williamson. “Thinking about Revolutions in Military Affairs.” Joint Forces Quarterly, Summer 1997.

· Tilly, Charles. Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990. Cambridge, Mass., USA: B. Blackwell, 1990.

· War and Civilization - Episode 3: Horse Warriors (History Documentary) - YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlgRaEVviK8.

· War and Civilization - Episode 4: Gunpowder (History Documentary) - YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5etFkiMHIK0.

· Winner, Langdon. ‘Do Artifacts Have Politics?’ Daedalus, 1980, 121–136.

Military Technology and Strategy

Objectives:

· To analyse and assess reflections of technological progress in military doctrines and strategies

Oxford-style debate:

· US Air Force - independent versus supporting branch?

Recommended literature:

· Byman, Daniel L., and Matthew C. Waxman. ‘Kosovo and the Great Air Power Debate’. International Security 24, no. 4 (Spring 2000): 5–38.

· Howard, Michael. ‘Men against Fire: Expectations of War in 1914’. International Security 9, no. 1 (1984): 41–57.

· Shimshoni, Jonathan. ‘Technology, Military Advantage, and World War I: A Case for Military Entrepreneurship’. International Security 15, no. 3 (1990): 187–215

· Stigler, Andrew L. ‘A Clear Victory for Air Power: NATO’s Empty Threat to Invade Kosovo’. International Security 27, no. 3 (2003): 124–57.

· Van Evera, Stephen. ‘Offense, Defense, and the Causes of War’. International Security 22, no. 4 (April 1998): 5–43. doi:10.1162/isec.22.4.5.

· War and Civilization - Episode 6: Blood and Iron (History Documentary) - YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGP4g4OecJs.

· War and Civilization - Episode 7: War Machines (History Documentary) - YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT1_1pRoK-0.

Network-Centric Warfare and the Future of Warfare

Objectives:

· To describe the recent thoughts on military technology and military transformation

· To identify the main components of the current military transformation

· To assess the role of military technology in the current thoughts on the transformation of warfare

Oxford-style debate:

· Was the Gulf War a prove of the RMA?

Recommended literature

Biddle, Stephen. ‘The Past as Prologue: Assessing Theories of Future Warfare’. Security Studies 8, no. 1 (1 September 1998): 1–74. doi:10.1080/09636419808429365.
Cebrowski, Arthur K., and John J. Garstka. ‘Network-Centric Warfare: Its Origin and Future’. In US Naval Institute Proceedings, 124:28–35, 1998.

§ Coker, Christopher. The Future of War : The Re-Enchantment of War in the Twenty-First Century / Christopher Coker. Malden, Mass; Oxford: Blackwell Pub, 2004.

Gartzke, Erik. ‘The Myth of Cyberwar’. International Security 38, no. 2 (Fall 2013): 41–73.
Niva, Steve. ‘Disappearing Violence: JSOC and the Pentagon’s New Cartography of Networked Warfare’. Security Dialogue 44, no. 3 (1 June 2013): 185–202. doi:10.1177/0967010613485869.

§ Sloan, Elinor. ‘Robotics at War’. Survival (00396338) 57, no. 5 (October 2015): 107–20. doi:10.1080/00396338.2015.1090133.

Controlling technological progress: Tyranny of the Red Queen versus culture and institutions

Objectives:

· To define and apply the concept of technological imperative

· To explain the relationship between military-technological progress and human agency

Oxford-style debate:

· Withholding technology (see Blanken and Lapore 2011) - should the USA consider slowing down or withholding its space warfare programme?

Recommended literature:

· Edgerton, David. ‘Liberal Militarism and the British State’. New Left Review 185 (1991): 138–169.

· Fritsch, Stefan. ‘Technology and Global Affairs’. International Studies Perspectives 12, no. 1 (February 2011): 27–45. doi:10.1111/j.1528-3585.2010.00417.x.

· Kirkpatrick, David L. I. ‘Trends in the Costs of Weapon Systems and the Consequences’. Defence and Peace Economics 15, no. 3 (1 June 2004): 259–73. doi:10.1080/1024269032000123203.

· MacKenzie, Donald. ‘Technology and the Arms Race’. International Security 14, no. 1 (1 July 1989): 161–75. doi:10.2307/2538768.

· Reppy, Judith. ‘The Technological Imperative in Strategic Thought’. Journal of Peace Research 27, no. 1 (1 February 1990): 101–6.

· Suchman, Mark C., and Dana P. Eyre. “Military Procurement as Rational Myth: Notes on the Social Construction of Weapons Proliferation.” Sociological Forum 7, no. 1 (March 1, 1992): 137–61.

Stigmatisation, taboos and outlawing of weapons

Objectives:

· To identify methods of regulation of military technology

· To propose a strategy of military technological regulations

Oxford-style debate:

· Prohibition of lethal autonomous weapon systems

Recommended literature:

· Jensen, Eric Talbot. ‘Emerging Technologies and LOAC Signaling’. Int’l L. Stud. Ser. US Naval War Col. 91 (2015): 621.

· P. W., Singer. ‘A World of Killer Apps’. Nature, no. 7365 (2011): 399. doi:10.1038/477399a.

· Price, Richard. ‘A Genealogy of the Chemical Weapons Taboo’. International Organization 49, no. 1 (1 January 1995): 73–103.

· Sloan, Elinor. ‘Robotics at War’. Survival (00396338) 57, no. 5 (October 2015): 107–20. doi:10.1080/00396338.2015.1090133.

· Tannenwald, Nina. “Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo.” International Security 29, no. 4 (Spring 2005): 5–49. doi:10.1162/0162288054299428.