Arsenal of a Multipolar Age (Paperback)

Paperback. Military dominance is not a weapons count. It is the ability to mobilize, integrate, sustain, replace-and keep allies in the fight. The United States and its closest partners still possess the world's most capable integrated military network. Yet recruitment pressure, munitions shortages, industrial bottlenecks, contested logistics and political strain among allies are narrowing the margin in ways that defense budgets alone cannot explain. Arsenal of a Multipolar Age compares the military resources associated with the G7 and BRICS+ while refusing to treat either group as a single army. Its graphics make personnel, aircraft, armor, naval forces, missiles, nuclear forces and defense spending visible at a glance; its analysis then asks what those inventories can actually do. Readiness, tanker and lift fleets, bases, sensors, command systems, maintenance, shipbuilding and ammunition replacement determine whether paper strength becomes usable power. Case studies involving Iran, Ukraine, the Indo-Pacific and strategic chokepoints show how missiles, drones, dispersed launchers, hardened infrastructure and lower-cost denial systems can impose limits on technically superior forces. The book also examines demographic pressure, U.S. recruiting challenges, alliance interoperability, escalation risk and the race to rebuild defense-industrial capacity. Volume Three offers a sober balance sheet: BRICS+ is not an integrated military bloc, and the G7 retains decisive advantages-but dominance becomes less reliable when access, endurance, replacement and coalition cohesion can no longer be assumed. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …