Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines

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Publication Year:2001

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Committee on Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Office of International Affairs, National Research Council
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This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines emphasizes the role that technology can play to allow certain weapons ...
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Front Matter	i-xvi
Executive Summary	1-9	(skim)
1 Introduction	10-18	(skim)
2 National Security Environments and the Context for Landmines	19-24	(skim)
3 Current Uses of Antipersonnel Landmines	25-29	(skim)
4 Evaluation Methodology	30-34	(skim)
5 Alternatives Available Today	35-44	(skim)
6 Alternatives Available by 2006	45-59	(skim)
7 Alternatives Potentially Available After 2006	60-76	(skim)
8 Conclusions and Recommendations	77-79	(skim)
References	80-82	(skim)
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members	83-87	(skim)
Appendix B: Committee Meetings	88-91	(skim)
Appendix C: Current Types of U.S. Landmines	92-98	(skim)
Appendix D: Value of Antipersonnel Landmines in Unprotected Mixed Minefields	99-100	(skim)
Appendix E: The Ottawa Convention and Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Conventional Weapons	101-114	(skim)
Appendix F: Signatories to the Ottawa Convention and Their Alternatives to Landmines	115-117	(skim)
Appendix G: Mission Need Statements	118-123	(skim)

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This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines emphasizes the role that technology can play to allow certain weapons to be used more selectively, reducing the danger to uninvolved civilians while improving the effectiveness of the U.S. military. Landmines are an important weapon in the U.S. military s arsenal but the persistent variety can cause unintended casualties, to both civilians and friendly forces. New technologies could replace some, but not all, of the U.S. military s antipersonnel landmines by 2006. In the period following 2006, emerging technologies might eliminate the landmine totally, while retaining the necessary functionalities that today s mines provide to the military.

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