Below I have embedded a document that I created for my students in “Information Technology and Global Conflict.”  It is a quick resource guide for doing research on military-related topics.  It contains links to resources such as professional journals and schools, non-government sites with military and national security related information, etc.  It also contains links […]

Donald A. Mackenzie, Inventing Accuracy: An Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1990)
 MacKenzie uses guidance systems for ICBMs as a window into Cold War politics, defense planning, and nuclear strategy.  He argues that the quest for more accurate missiles reflected a shift in strategy from MAD to counterforce targetting.  The development […]