Defense Budgeting For A Safer World

Author : Michael J. Boskin,John N. Rader,Kiran Sridhar
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817925963

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Defense Budgeting for a Safer World by Michael J. Boskin,John N. Rader,Kiran Sridhar Pdf

America is facing the most dangerous and complex geopolitical environment since World War II. Ensuring the adequacy and flexibility of our defense budget is essential to keeping our nation secure and the world safe for global democracy. Defense Budgeting for a Safer World brings together the ideas, perspectives, and solutions of America's most renowned experts on national security and the defense budget. The volume originates from a conference held at the Hoover Institution in early 2023 and reflects the presentations, discussions, and debates among military and civilian leaders. Drawing on their remarkable experience leading the Pentagon, the services, Congress, and academe, these experts lay out the key priorities in reforming, realigning, and rightsizing the budget amid current challenges. Several topics converge: national security threats, strategy, technology and innovation, personnel, reform options, and the politics of the defense budget. This unique compilation covers each of the major areas of debate in forging and sustaining a defense budget capable of supporting the nation's security needs.

Author : United States. Air Force. Office of Comptroller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:30000010512600

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The Air Force Budget by United States. Air Force. Office of Comptroller Pdf

Author : Nancy G. Leveson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262297301

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Engineering a Safer World by Nancy G. Leveson Pdf

A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques. Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a new approach to safety—more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world—based on modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950s aerospace engineers in their System Safety concept, and testing her new model extensively on real-world examples, Leveson has created a new approach to safety that is more effective, less expensive, and easier to use than current techniques. Arguing that traditional models of causality are inadequate, Leveson presents a new, extended model of causation (Systems-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes, or STAMP), then shows how the new model can be used to create techniques for system safety engineering, including accident analysis, hazard analysis, system design, safety in operations, and management of safety-critical systems. She applies the new techniques to real-world events including the friendly-fire loss of a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter in the first Gulf War; the Vioxx recall; the U.S. Navy SUBSAFE program; and the bacterial contamination of a public water supply in a Canadian town. Leveson's approach is relevant even beyond safety engineering, offering techniques for “reengineering” any large sociotechnical system to improve safety and manage risk.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822037830247

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Rethinking Our Defense Budget by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Defense and International Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Budget
ISBN : PSU:000013362553

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Defense Budget Policy in a Constrained Environment by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Defense and International Affairs Pdf

Author : Barry R. Schneider,Jim A. Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313080524

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Avoiding the Abyss by Barry R. Schneider,Jim A. Davis Pdf

In December 1993, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin announced the Counterproliferation Initiative, a response to President Clinton's assertion that if we do not stem the proliferation of the world's deadliest weapons, no democracy can feel secure. This timely book brings together contributions from a wide range of experts to help readers understand how far the nation has come since then—and what still needs to happen. Insightful essays examine: arms control treaty programs; export control regimes; interdiction; diplomatic/economic/political persuasion and sanctions; deterrence; counterforce; active and passive defense; and consequence management. Many positive changes have occurred since 1993. Regime changes in Iraq and South Africa have removed some WMD proliferation threats. Saddam Hussein has been overthrown, and a new Iraq is beginning to emerge. South Africa's clandestine WMD program has apparently ended. Libya announced it has given up its efforts to have active WMD programs. The Taliban and al Qaeda have been routed in Afghanistan, probably delaying efforts to develop or buy WMD. Yet, states continue to develop and export WMD and/or their delivery systems. As many as 30 states are still believed to have either a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons program. Some have all three. India and Pakistan have acknowledged programs. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist who directed the Pakistani A-bomb program, has admitted selling nuclear weapons designs, and nuclear enrichment equipment to Libya, Iran, and North Korea. His colleagues have held discussions with al Qaeda representatives. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, number two in the al Qaeda chain of command, claims that the terrorist organization has several suitcase A-bombs from the Former Soviet Union. It appears clear to many that Iran has a desire to develop nuclear weapons. Syria still has a chemical weapons program. North Korea's WMD profile has escalated. As Avoiding the Abyss so convincingly demonstrates, much has been accomplished since the Counterproliferation Initiative was launched-but much work still lies ahead. It is an important story for every American.

Author : United States. Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:30000010441362

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Your Defense Budget by United States. Department of Defense Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : United States
ISBN : PURD:32754077570574

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Fiscal Year 1990 Defense Budget Overview by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget Pdf

Author : United States. Dept. of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : United States
ISBN : UIUC:30112101879242

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Report of Secretary of Defense ... to the Congress on the FY ... Budget, FY ... Authorization Request, and FY ... Defense Programs by United States. Dept. of Defense Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951P00304010Z

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US Department of State Dispatch by Anonim Pdf

Contains a diverse compilation of major speeches, congressional testimony, policy statements, fact sheets, and other foreign policy information from the State Dept.

Author : United States. Department of Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070258475

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Report of Secretary of Defense ... to the Congress on the FY ... Budget, FY ... Authorization Request, and FY ... Defense Programs by United States. Department of Defense Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:30000009126156

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American Foreign Policy Current Documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : United States
ISBN : SRLF:AA0005244363

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Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994: pt. 1B. Department of Commerce by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Andrew Cockburn
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839763656

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The Spoils of War by Andrew Cockburn Pdf

Why does the United States go to war?—a leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers. A withering exposé of runaway military spending and the private economic interests funding the U.S. war machine—for fans of Rachel Maddow and Democracy Now! America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the West from the dangers of Islamists. The US soldiers stationed in over 800 locations across the world are meant to be the righteous arbiters of justice. Against this background, Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the true intentions behind Washington’s martial appetites. The American war machine can only be understood in terms of the private passions and interests of those who control it—principally a passionate interest in money. Thus, as Cockburn witheringly reports, Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms manufacturer’s urgent financial requirements; the US Navy’s Pacific fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt contractor who bribed high-ranking officers with cash and prostitutes; senior Marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2017 for budgetary reasons. Based on years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: as profoundly squalid as it is terrifyingly deadly.

Author : John M. Shields,William C. Potter
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0262691981

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Dismantling the Cold War by John M. Shields,William C. Potter Pdf

The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program has since authorized more than $1.5 billion for a wide array of weapons destruction, demilitarization, nuclear security, and nonproliferation activities in the Newly Independent States (NIS) of the former Soviet Union.