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@book{fds368301,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail},
   Pages = {270 pages},
   Year = {1978},
   Key = {fds368301}
}

@book{fds368356,
   Author = {Preston, RA and Wise, SF},
   Title = {Men in Arms A History of Warfare and Its Interrelationships
             with Western Society},
   Pages = {478 pages},
   Publisher = {Holt McDougal},
   Year = {1979},
   Key = {fds368356}
}

@book{fds368355,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {A Spacefaring People Perspectives on Early Space
             Flight},
   Pages = {270 pages},
   Year = {1985},
   Abstract = {"Essays ... presented at a conference on the history of
             space activity held at Yale University on February 6 and 7,
             1981"--Introduction.},
   Key = {fds368355}
}

@book{fds359321,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {MODEL RESEARCH: THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR
             AERONAUTICS 1915-1958.},
   Year = {1985},
   Month = {December},
   Abstract = {Throughout most of its history, the National Advisory
             Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was arguably the most
             important and productive aeronautical research establishment
             in the world. This book examines the NACA as an institution,
             attempting to explain how and why it functioned and to
             evaluate it as a research organization. Although the NACA's
             technical achievements permeate the story, this book is not
             a technical history. It is primarily a political and
             institutional history focusing on the NACA as a model
             research organization. The principal themes of this story
             are three: First are the institutional considerations. The
             second theme encompasses personnel policies and how they
             shaped NACA research. Finally, it is shown how research
             equipment shaped the NACA's program fully as much as did its
             organization and personnel.},
   Key = {fds359321}
}

@article{fds359320,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Priorities in space for the USA},
   Journal = {Space Policy},
   Volume = {3},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {104-111},
   Year = {1987},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0265-9646(87)90006-3},
   Abstract = {This article follows the story of Shuttle development, in
             the context of the history of the US space programme from
             Apollo to the Space Station. The Shuttle was chosen as one
             of a series of 'space spectaculars' and has proven to be
             prohibitively expensive and unreliable, practical only for a
             very limited number of specialized missions. The Space
             Station, too, cannot be economically supplied, even if the
             USA could afford to build it. The author concludes that NASA
             should cancel the Space Station and the replacement orbiter
             for Challenger, and engage on a major programme of launch
             vehicle development, independent of the US military. The aim
             should be a dramatic reduction of launch vehicle costs,
             making spaceflight practical, and a truly independent NASA
             which could restore the USA to space preeminence. ©
             1987.},
   Doi = {10.1016/0265-9646(87)90006-3},
   Key = {fds359320}
}

@article{fds359319,
   Author = {ROLAND, A},
   Title = {Hephaestus and History Scientists, Engineers, and War in
             Western Experience},
   Journal = {Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences},
   Volume = {577},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {51-60},
   Year = {1989},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1989.tb15049.x},
   Doi = {10.1111/j.1749-6632.1989.tb15049.x},
   Key = {fds359319}
}

@article{fds359318,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Theories and Models of Technological Change: Semantics and
             Substance},
   Journal = {Science, Technology & Human Values},
   Volume = {17},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {79-100},
   Year = {1992},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016224399201700105},
   Doi = {10.1177/016224399201700105},
   Key = {fds359318}
}

@article{fds359317,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Celebration or education? the goals of the u.s. national air
             and space museum},
   Journal = {History and Technology},
   Volume = {10},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {77-89},
   Year = {1993},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07341519308581837},
   Doi = {10.1080/07341519308581837},
   Key = {fds359317}
}

@article{fds359316,
   Author = {Long, PO and Roland, A},
   Title = {Military secrecy in antiquity and early medieval Europe: A
             critical reassessment},
   Journal = {History and Technology},
   Volume = {11},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {259-290},
   Year = {1994},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07341519408581866},
   Doi = {10.1080/07341519408581866},
   Key = {fds359316}
}

@article{fds359315,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {What Hath Kranzberg wrought? Or, does the history of
             technology matter?},
   Journal = {Technology and Culture},
   Volume = {38},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {697-712},
   Year = {1997},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3106860},
   Doi = {10.2307/3106860},
   Key = {fds359315}
}

@article{fds7219,
   Author = {Theodore Ropp},
   Title = {Introduction},
   Pages = {3-10},
   Booktitle = {War in the Modern World},
   Publisher = {Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press},
   Year = {2000},
   Key = {fds7219}
}

@book{fds368354,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {The Military-Industrial Complex},
   Publisher = {Society for the History of Technology and the American
             HIstorical Association},
   Year = {2001},
   Key = {fds368354}
}

@book{fds368353,
   Author = {Galison, P and Roland, A},
   Title = {Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century},
   Pages = {383 pages},
   Publisher = {Springer},
   Editor = {Peter Galison and Alex Roland},
   Year = {2001},
   Month = {February},
   ISBN = {9780792367420},
   Abstract = {All technologies are alike. The tension between likeness and
             difference runs through this collection of papers. All focus
             on atmospheric flight, a twentieth-century
             phenomenon.},
   Key = {fds368353}
}

@book{fds368352,
   Author = {A. Roland and Roland, A and Roland, POHA and Shiman, P},
   Title = {Strategic Computing DARPA and the Quest for Machine
             Intelligence, 1983-1993},
   Pages = {478 pages},
   Publisher = {MIT Press},
   Year = {2002},
   ISBN = {9780262182263},
   Abstract = {1 Robert Kahn : Visionary Robert Kahn was the godfather of
             Strategic Computing ( SC ) .1 He con- ceived the program as
             a source of patronage for his professional family . He
             developed a rationale that gave the program the
             political ...},
   Key = {fds368352}
}

@article{fds7220,
   Title = {Understanding War},
   Editor = {Richard H. Kohn and Alex Roland},
   Year = {2002},
   Key = {fds7220}
}

@article{fds7221,
   Author = {A. Roland and Raymond Ashley and Jeffrey Bolster and Alexander Keyssar and David Sicilia},
   Title = {A Maritime History of the United States},
   Year = {2003},
   Key = {fds7221}
}

@article{fds359314,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Once More into the Stirrups: Lynn White jr., Medieval
             Technology and Social Change},
   Journal = {Technology and Culture},
   Volume = {44},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {574-585},
   Year = {2003},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2003.0131},
   Doi = {10.1353/tech.2003.0131},
   Key = {fds359314}
}

@article{fds359313,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Reconsidering a century of flight},
   Journal = {British Journal for the History of Science},
   Volume = {39},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {145-146},
   Year = {2006},
   Month = {March},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087406407895},
   Doi = {10.1017/S0007087406407895},
   Key = {fds359313}
}

@article{fds359312,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {The worst century ever: William Pfaff, the bullet's song:
             Romantic violence and Utopia},
   Journal = {Technology and Culture},
   Volume = {47},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {597-606},
   Year = {2006},
   Month = {July},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2006.0198},
   Doi = {10.1353/tech.2006.0198},
   Key = {fds359312}
}

@article{fds359311,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Containers and causality},
   Journal = {Technology and Culture},
   Volume = {48},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {386-392},
   Year = {2007},
   Month = {April},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2007.0087},
   Doi = {10.1353/tech.2007.0087},
   Key = {fds359311}
}

@book{fds368351,
   Author = {Roland, A and Bolster, WJ and Keyssar, A},
   Title = {The Way of the Ship America's Maritime History Reenvisoned,
             1600-2000},
   Pages = {564 pages},
   Publisher = {John Wiley & Sons},
   Year = {2008},
   ISBN = {9780470136003},
   Abstract = {The Way of the Ship tells the important story of the
             commercial transport of passengers and goods from port to
             port in American history and the ways in which it fueled the
             material and economic expansion of the country.},
   Key = {fds368351}
}

@article{fds359310,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Heyday of the boffins},
   Journal = {Minerva},
   Volume = {46},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {159-163},
   Year = {2008},
   Month = {March},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-007-9083-6},
   Doi = {10.1007/s11024-007-9083-6},
   Key = {fds359310}
}

@article{fds359309,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Ships for this new ocean},
   Journal = {Futures},
   Volume = {41},
   Number = {8},
   Pages = {523-530},
   Year = {2009},
   Month = {October},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2009.04.020},
   Abstract = {The voyages of Christopher Columbus are invoked by Americans
             more than any other historical analog to capture the ethos
             of the manned space program. A better analogy would be Leif
             Ericksson. He and his fellow Norsemen reached North America
             five centuries before Columbus by travelling in the most
             remarkable sailing vessels of their time. Not until
             Columbus, however, did Europeans have at their disposal a
             robust maritime technology that would allow them to not only
             reach the Western hemisphere but also to sail back and forth
             to Europe reliably. Over the last forty-five years, the
             United States has developed space launch vehicles that can
             carry astronauts to near-Earth orbit and even to the moon.
             It has failed, however, to develop the space ship that can
             do for the United States what the caravel did for Columbus.
             The current program to build a new suite of launch vehicles
             simply recycles old technology. It builds longships, not
             caravels. To achieve its goals for manned spaceflight, NASA
             must first build a safe, reliable, and economical launch
             vehicle. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights
             reserved.},
   Doi = {10.1016/j.futures.2009.04.020},
   Key = {fds359309}
}

@article{fds359308,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {The state of space history},
   Journal = {Technology and Culture},
   Volume = {51},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {220-222},
   Year = {2010},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.0.0416},
   Doi = {10.1353/tech.0.0416},
   Key = {fds359308}
}

@article{fds359307,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Was the nuclear arms race deterministic?},
   Journal = {Technology and Culture},
   Volume = {51},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {444-461},
   Year = {2010},
   Month = {April},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.0.0457},
   Doi = {10.1353/tech.0.0457},
   Key = {fds359307}
}

@article{fds359306,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {On the water: Stories from Maritime America National Museum
             of American history, Washington, D.C.},
   Journal = {Technology and Culture},
   Volume = {51},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {723-727},
   Year = {2010},
   Month = {July},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2010.0025},
   Doi = {10.1353/tech.2010.0025},
   Key = {fds359306}
}

@book{fds368350,
   Author = {Galison, P and Roland, A},
   Title = {Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century},
   Pages = {383 pages},
   Publisher = {Springer Science & Business Media},
   Year = {2013},
   Month = {March},
   ISBN = {9789401143790},
   Abstract = {THE EVOLUTION OF AERODYNAMICS IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY:
             ENGINEERING OR SCIENCEQ INTRODUCTION The field of ... well
             as the use of this understanding in the design of flight
             vehicles, has grown exponentially during the
             twentiethcentury.},
   Key = {fds368350}
}

@article{fds370000,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Sean F. Johnston. The Neutron's Children: Nuclear
             Engineers and the Shaping of Identity. xi + 313 pp.,
             illus., apps., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University
             Press, 2012. $62.99 (cloth).},
   Journal = {Isis},
   Volume = {104},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {648-649},
   Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
   Year = {2013},
   Month = {September},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/674512},
   Doi = {10.1086/674512},
   Key = {fds370000}
}

@article{fds331089,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Rebecca Slayton. Arguments That Count: Physics,
             Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949–2012. xi + 325
             pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT
             Press, 2013. $35 (cloth).},
   Journal = {Isis},
   Volume = {105},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {671-672},
   Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
   Year = {2014},
   Month = {September},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/679175},
   Doi = {10.1086/679175},
   Key = {fds331089}
}

@article{fds333667,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Robert G. Ferguson. NASA's First A: Aeronautics from 1958
             to 2008. viii + 293 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index.
             Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space
             Administration, 2013. $20 (cloth).},
   Journal = {Isis},
   Volume = {105},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {866-867},
   Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
   Year = {2014},
   Month = {December},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/680298},
   Doi = {10.1086/680298},
   Key = {fds333667}
}

@article{fds333666,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {A History of War in 100 Battles},
   Journal = {JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY},
   Volume = {79},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {475-475},
   Year = {2015},
   Key = {fds333666}
}

@article{fds326518,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early
             Spaceflight by Michael G. Smith},
   Journal = {Journal of World History},
   Volume = {26},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {684-686},
   Publisher = {Project MUSE},
   Year = {2015},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2015.0019},
   Doi = {10.1353/jwh.2015.0019},
   Key = {fds326518}
}

@article{fds326517,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {America Inc.? Innovation and Enterprise in the National
             Security State by Linda Weiss},
   Journal = {Technology and Culture},
   Volume = {57},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {694-696},
   Publisher = {Project MUSE},
   Year = {2016},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2016.0092},
   Doi = {10.1353/tech.2016.0092},
   Key = {fds326517}
}

@book{fds368349,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {War and Technology A Very Short Introduction},
   Pages = {152 pages},
   Publisher = {Oxford University Press},
   Year = {2016},
   ISBN = {9780190605384},
   Abstract = {Politics, economics, ideology, culture, strategy, tactics,
             and philosophy have all shaped war, but none of these
             factors has driven the evolution of warfare as much as
             technology.},
   Key = {fds368349}
}

@article{fds331088,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Making Jet Engines in World War II: Britain, Germany, and
             the United States by Hermione Giffard},
   Journal = {Technology and Culture},
   Volume = {58},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {878-879},
   Publisher = {Project MUSE},
   Year = {2017},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2017.0093},
   Doi = {10.1353/tech.2017.0093},
   Key = {fds331088}
}

@article{fds359305,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Secrecy, technology, and war: Greek fire and the defense of
             byzantium, 678-1204},
   Pages = {419-443},
   Booktitle = {Warfare in the Dark Ages},
   Year = {2017},
   Month = {May},
   ISBN = {9780754625575},
   Key = {fds359305}
}

@book{fds368348,
   Author = {Roland, A and Bolster, WJ and Keyssar, A},
   Title = {The Way of the Ship America's Maritime History Reenvisoned,
             1600-2000},
   Pages = {556 pages},
   Publisher = {Wiley},
   Year = {2017},
   Month = {November},
   ISBN = {9781684421503},
   Abstract = {This is part of a two-book project created by the American
             Maritime History Project, Inc., an independent enterprise
             with an office at the United States Merchant Marine Academy
             at Kings Point, New York.},
   Key = {fds368348}
}

@article{fds369999,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Reinventing the Propeller: Aeronautical Specialty and the
             Triumph of the Modern Airplane by Jeremy R.
             Kinney},
   Journal = {Technology and Culture},
   Volume = {59},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {987-988},
   Publisher = {Project MUSE},
   Year = {2018},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2018.0107},
   Doi = {10.1353/tech.2018.0107},
   Key = {fds369999}
}

@article{fds359304,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {The lonely race to mars: The future of manned
             spaceflight},
   Pages = {35-49},
   Booktitle = {Space Policy Alternatives},
   Year = {2019},
   Month = {January},
   ISBN = {9780367288488},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429307232-4},
   Abstract = {The primary argument for manned spaceflight has always been
             prestige. The enthusiasm to put men in space began after
             Sputnik, when the Soviet Union seemed to have stolen a march
             on the United States. The John F. Kennedy Space Center was
             originally planned to handle 50 Apollo launches a year. By
             1965 most of the money for the program was spent in any
             case, invested in research and development on the huge
             Saturn launch vehicle and the Apollo spacecraft and in the
             facilities at Houston and Cape Canaveral that would launch
             and control the manned missions. The consensus was strong
             enough to sustain the Apollo program through the dark days
             after the Apollo fire of 1967 and through seven of the
             projected nine trips to the moon. Congressional support for
             National Aeronautics and Space Administration in general and
             the manned space program in particular has remained strong
             through good times and bad.},
   Doi = {10.4324/9780429307232-4},
   Key = {fds359304}
}

@article{fds366893,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Craig L. Symonds, World War II at Sea: A Global
             History},
   Journal = {Canadian Journal of History},
   Volume = {54},
   Number = {1-2},
   Pages = {269-271},
   Publisher = {University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)},
   Year = {2019},
   Month = {September},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjh.54.1-2.11-br48},
   Doi = {10.3138/cjh.54.1-2.11-br48},
   Key = {fds366893}
}

@article{fds352487,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Is military technology deterministic?},
   Journal = {Vulcan},
   Volume = {7},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {19-33},
   Year = {2020},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134603-00701002},
   Abstract = {In their papers prepared for this volume, Kelly DeVries and
             David Zimmerman explore the differing viewpoints on
             technological determinism that military historians bring to
             bear on premodern and modern warfare. This paper analyzes
             their respective arguments, including DeVries's introduction
             of the concepts of effectiveness, invincibility, and
             decisiveness; it focuses primarily on technological
             determinism. It explores some concepts of historical
             causation and concludes that nothing in human behavior is
             deterministic. It recommends language that can help
             historians avoid this rhetorical battleground and speak more
             clearly and judiciously about the factors that shape warfare
             and affect its outcome.},
   Doi = {10.1163/22134603-00701002},
   Key = {fds352487}
}

@book{fds368347,
   Author = {Roland, A},
   Title = {Delta of Power The Military-Industrial Complex},
   Pages = {304 pages},
   Publisher = {JHU Press},
   Year = {2021},
   Month = {August},
   ISBN = {9781421441818},
   Abstract = {"The book covers the Cold War origins of the
             military-industrial complex and explains its current
             relevance since the 9/11 terrorist attacks"--},
   Key = {fds368347}
}


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