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Technology Security and National Power focuses on how the United States has squandered its technological leadership through unwise policies, leading to the weakening of American power. Stephen D. Bryen traces the history of technology to show how technology is always a pillar of any nation's strength and proposes a new way to secure technology for the future

I: Cybernetic Analysis and Political Study -- Goals of the Study -- Deutsch's Cybernetic-systems Approach -- Cybernetic Themes -- Risk, awareness, consciousness -- Deutsch's Approach Applied to Political Study -- Storage, memory, will -- Decision making -- Steering and control -- Action and sustaining systems -- The Dynamic Quality of Deutsch's Cynernetic Approach -- Summary -- II: The Cybernetic Approach and International Politics -- Concepts of International Politics -- State of Nature concept -- Systems concept -- Determining the Character of International Systems -- Historical comparison -- Modelski's approach -- Riggs' historical comparison -- Non-historical comparison -- Master's primitive society -- Kissinger and limited warfare -- Futuristic comparison -- Kaplan's systems -- Cybernetic view of international politics -- International Action systems -- Consciousness and risk in policy choice -- Passitivity factor -- Summary -- III: The Cybernetic Approach and the Past -- Use of the Past -- Problem of Concealment -- A Nineteenth Century Action System -- France-Prussia in 1870 -- Cross-cutting forces -- Bismarck's alliances -- Summary -- IV: International Political Systems and The Future -- The Present and the Future -- Rosecrance's Environmental Approach -- McClelland's Action System Approach -- Critique -- Summary -- V: Pathology and International Systems -- Introduction: Cybernetic Systems and Pathology -- Pathology and International Systems -- International Action Systems -- Maintenace -- Pathological Mixtures -- Nuclear Weapon -- Conclusions.