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Author : Bernard Jenkin,Chris Donnelly (Advisor on defense research),David McOwat
Publisher : Basic Civitas Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1906837708
Author : John Louth,Trevor Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351784894
This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent public-private enterprise covering politics, management, society, and technology, as well as the military. Building upon wide-ranging applied research, with extensive access to ministers, policy makers, senior military commanders, and industrialists, the book characterises British defence as a phenomenon that has endured extensive transformation this century. Looking at the subject afresh as a complex, extended enterprise involving politics, alliances, businesses, skills, economics, military practices, and citizens, the authors profoundly reshape our understanding of ‘defence’ and how it is to be commissioned and delivered in a world dominated by geopolitical risks and uncertainties. The book makes the case that this new understanding of defence must inevitably lead to new policies and processes to ensure its health and vitality. This book will be of much interest to students of defence studies, British politics, and military and strategic studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners.
Author : James Hasik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226318899
With many of the most important new military systems of the past decade produced by small firms that won competitive government contracts, defense-industry consultant James Hasik argues in Arms and Innovation that small firms have a number of advantages relative to their bigger competitors. Such firms are marked by an entrepreneurial spirit and fewer bureaucratic obstacles, and thus can both be more responsive to changes in the environment and more strategic in their planning. This is demonstrated, Hasik shows, by such innovation in military technologies as those that protect troops from roadside bombs in Iraq and the Predator drones that fly over active war zones and that are crucial to our new war on terror. For all their advantages, small firms also face significant challenges in access to capital and customers. To overcome such problems, they can form alliances either with each other or with larger companies. Hasik traces the trade-offs of such alliances and provides crucial insight into their promises and pitfalls. This ground-breaking study is a significant contribution to understanding both entrepreneurship and alliances, two crucial factors in business generally. It will be of interest to readers in the defense sector as well as the wider business community.
Author : Jo Inge Bekkevold,Ian Bowers,Michael Raska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317565345
This edited volume explores and analyses strategic thinking, military reform and adaptation in an era of Asian growth, European austerity and US rebalancing. A significant shift in policy, strategy and military affairs is underway in both Asia and Europe, with the former gaining increasing prominence in the domain of global security. At the same time, the world’s powers are now faced with an array of diverse challenges. The resurgence of great power politics in both Europe and Asia, along with the long term threats of terrorism, piracy and sustained geopolitical instability has placed great strain on militaries and security institutions operating with constrained budgets and wary public support. The volume covers a wide range of case studies, including the transformation of China’s military in the 21st century, the internal and external challenges facing India, Russia’s military modernization program and the USA’s reassessment of its strategic interests. In doing so, the book provides the reader with the opportunity to conceptualize how strategic thinking, military reform, operational adaptation and technological integration have interacted with the challenges outlined above. With contributions by leading scholars and practitioners from Europe and Asia, this book provides a valuable contribution to the understanding of strategic and operational thinking and adjustment across the world. This book will be of much interest to students of military and strategic studies, security studies, defence studies, Asian politics, Russian politics, US foreign policy and IR in general.
Author : Burgess, Kevin,Antill, Peter
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781522506003
Military and defense organizations are a vital component to any nation. In order to maintain the standards of these sectors, new procedures and practices must be implemented. Emerging Strategies in Defense Acquisitions and Military Procurement is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly research on the present state of defense organizations, examining reforms and solutions necessary to overcome current limitations and make vast improvements to their infrastructure. Highlighting methodologies and theoretical foundations that promote more effective practices in defense acquisition, this book is ideally designed for academicians, practitioners, researchers, upper-level students, and professionals engaged in defense industries.
Author : United States United States Army Center of Military History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798715548597
Acquisition as defined by the Department of Defense denotes our national security establishment harnessing the scientific and engineering knowledge of military and civilian professionals to create the tools of modern war. It encompasses research and development, engineering, contracting, test and evaluation, fielding, and disposal of weapon systems and other forms of technology that are vital to the nation. The acquisition process includes resource-management and strategic decisions that determine the new forms of technology that are developed.The Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF)--which is celebrating its eightieth anniversary in 2004--is dedicated to supporting the study of national security decision-making and understanding the vital defense acquisition process that supports it. The U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH) is committed to having the study of the past inform the decisions of the future. This book, a product of both institutions, is an important contribution to understanding the complex relationships that characterize the defense acquisition process central to our shared missions and goals.These pages highlight the papers and presentations from the defense acquisition symposium, Providing the Means of War. Held on 10-12 September 2001, the symposium was organized by CMH historians with the assistance of the ICAF faculty. During the second day of the conference, the connections between national security strategy and resource management became the subject of even more reflective discussion as the tragedies of 11 September unfolded. Since the watershed events of that day, the U.S. armed forces have been battling terrorism around the globe and are in the throes of an institutional transformation to meet twenty-first century challenges. The history of acquisition--and the acquisition community--can teach us much about institutional changes, the American response to global threats, and how resources can be best applied to address them.The motto of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces is Industria et Defensio Inseparabiles ("Industry and Defense Are Inseparable"). True to this spirit, the contributions in this volume show that the acquisition process is a shared burden, with both private industry and the American government having important roles to play. We trust that these papers will enhance our awareness of this process and of the inseparable partnerships that continue to provide our men and women in uniform with the most modern and capable means of war.
Author : Ann R. Markusen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822028177889
"A Council on Foreign Relations book"--Cover.
Author : Bjorn Moller,Hakan Wiberg
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994-04-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015026860703
The contributors also assess the effects that an increased role for the United Nations might have on future national defense restructuring initiatives.
Author : Great Britain: Ministry of Defence
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0101779623
The UK spends approximately £20bn annually on military goods and services, around two-thirds of the total Defence Budge The challenges are constantly evolving, and there has been a succession of reforms to the acquisition process, each building on the last, and between them delivering significant improvement: more recent equipment projects show less tendency towards cost growth and time slippage; there is a more holistic, 'throughlife' approach to providing capability (Chapter 5); and a stronger and more mutually beneficial relationship with industry (Chapter 6). Around 98 per cent of major projects deliver the operational performance needed at the front line. But they also tend to increase in cost - by an average of 2.8 per cent each year - and to suffer delay averaging 5.9 months. More projects must be delivered to cost and time. An independent report into defence acquisition by Bernard Gray (available at: http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/78821960-14A0-429E-A90A-FA2A8C292C84/0/ReviewAcquisitionGrayreport.pdf) concluded that overall plans for new equipment were too ambitious, and needed to be scaled down to match the funding likely to be available; and management of equipment portfolios must be improved. This strategy is built around those conclusions. The framework is designed so that the Ministry of Defence will make better decisions about what equipment (and wider services) to buy, how to ensure they are delivered on time, to cost and provide the desired performance; and in doing so, recognise and properly manage all the other strands (training, personnel, information, doctrine, organisation, infrastructure and logistics) needed to deliver and sustain effect on the ground.
Author : Kim Richard Nossal
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459736764
Defence procurement in Canada is a mess, with hundreds of millions of dollars being routinely wasted, despite which the Canadian Armed Forces is woefully underequipped and lacking crucial capacity. Charlie Foxtrot shows why past governments failed so spectacularly to efficiently equip and manage the CAF, and how to change that.
Author : Jacques S. Gansler
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262072991
The author describes the transformations needed in government and industry to achieve a new, more effective system of national defense.
Author : Joakim Berndtsson,Irina Goldenberg,Stéfanie von Hlatky
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228019411
Total defence, as a concept, combines and extends military and civil defence: in a state of war or emergency, all social institutions mobilize to defend the state. Total defence forces, led by a diverse workforce of defence and security professionals, are critical to both national defence and international security goals. Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century looks at the various groups that make up this workforce: members of the military’s regular force, reservists, defence civil servants, and contractors working for private military and security companies. When civilian staff and military personnel work towards a common goal, their distinct professional cultures and identities can make integration challenging. Despite the often high levels of partnership, underlying differences affect the quality of the collaboration and, ultimately, organizational and operational effectiveness. Defence ministries around the world are increasingly recognizing the importance of optimizing the ways in which they employ and integrate civilian and military personnel. This volume focuses on a critical question: what are the main challenges to workforce integration and collaboration, and how can such challenges be overcome to deliver the full potential of the total defence force? Together, scholars and practitioners provide some answers.
Author : Richard E. Simpkin
Publisher : Brassey's
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019976847
This reprint of the 1994 edition looks at the possibilities for warfare in the 21st century.
Author : Center of Center of Military History United States Army,Center of Military History United States,J. Fox
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505475155
Defense acquisition reform initiatives have been Department of Defense perennials over the past fifty years. Yet reforming the acquisition process remains a high priority each time a new administration comes into office. Many notable studies of defense acquisition with recommendations for changes have been published, and each has reached the same general findings with similar recommendations. However, despite the defense community's intent to reform the acquisition process, the difficulty of the problem and the associated politics, combined with organizational dynamics that are resistant to change, have led to only minor improvements. The problems of schedule slippages, cost growth, and shortfalls in technical performance on defense acquisition programs have remained much the same throughout this period. The importance of the Department of Defense's huge acquisition projects over the years cannot be overstressed. The United States has often turned to cutting-edge technological solutions to solve strategic and operational challenges. To highlight the importance of acquisition issues, the Department of Defense began a project in 2001 to write a history of defense acquisition from the end of World War II to the start of the twenty-first century. The U.S. Army Center of Military History served as the executive agent for that project until funding was effectively withdrawn in 2009. Two volumes of that history are nearing publication, which will take the story up to 1969. To capitalize on essential information on defense acquisition reform initiatives from the three unpublished draft volumes covering the period from 1969 to 2000, the Center decided to publish extracts from those volumes, with additional analysis by J. Ronald Fox, a subject matter expert on acquisition and an adviser to the project. Much of chapter two of this acquisition reform study was written by Walton S. Moody and David G. Allen for their draft Volume III (1969-1980) of the Defense Acquisition History Project and then edited, analyzed, and augmented by Fox. Similarly, most of chapter three was taken from Thomas C. Lassman's draft chapters three and five of his Volume IV (1981-1990), and much of chapter four was written by Philip L. Shiman as chapter eight of his Volume V (1991-2000) of the Defense Acquisition History Project. Fox was able to take their chapters, provide additional analysis and insights, and consolidate and edit them with his own work to prepare this important volume focusing on defense acquisition reform. This volume is the result of all of their research and writing efforts and their collective insights into an incredibly complex system. Professor Fox's Defense Acquisition Reform, 1960-2009: An Elusive Goal, provides valuable historical analysis of the numerous attempts over the past fifty years to reform the defense acquisition process for major weapons systems. It identifies important long-term trends, insights, and observations that provide perspective and context to assist current defense decision makers, acquisition officials, and the acquisition schoolhouse. It is an important work on an important subject that continues to defy solution.
Author : G. Williams,B. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230599079
This book examines the nature of international politics in the twentieth century. It encapsulates those essential and enduring features likely to be present in the twenty-first century. One important feature is the friction generated by nation states attempting to coexist in a still largely unequal and hierarchical system of states. The possible impact of three powerful, simultaneous and intersecting revolutions on international relations and the future of NATO is assessed in relation to the twenty-first century.