Defense Reform And Technology

Author : Serge Herzog
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275946289

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Defense Reform and Technology by Serge Herzog Pdf

To capture the defense reform debate surrounding the proper application of high technology in military systems, this study focuses on tactical aircraft, an area epitomizing cutting-edge technology. Air combat history is revisited (including the 1991 Persian Gulf War) to confirm, reject, or qualify positions advocating certain technologies in tactical aviation. Emphasis is placed on enduring combat ideas and aircraft design principles. The interaction between mission requirements, inventory composition, and aircraft design is discussed to illustrate the dynamics of constrained choice that enters acquisition decisions. The relevance of reform arguments in the post-Cold War era is assessed, including the impact of political and economic constraints on future force-mix options, the shift from NATO-centered contingencies to Third World Low Intensity Conflict (LIC), and the threat of conventional arms proliferation.

Author : Joel Wuthnow,Phillip Charles Saunders
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0160937876

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Chinese Military Reform in the Age of Xi Jinping: Drivers, Challenges, and Implications by Joel Wuthnow,Phillip Charles Saunders Pdf

China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has embarked on its most wide-ranging and ambitious restructuring since 1949, including major changes to most of its key organizations. The restructuring reflects the desire to strengthen PLA joint operation capabilities- on land, sea, in the air, and in the space and cyber domains. The reforms could result in a more adept joint warfighting force, though the PLA will continue to face a number of key hurdles to effective joint operations, Several potential actions would indicate that the PLA is overcoming obstacles to a stronger joint operations capability. The reforms are also intended to increase Chairman Xi Jinping's control over the PLA and to reinvigorate Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organs within the military. Xi Jinping's ability to push through reforms indicates that he has more authority over the PLA than his recent predecessors. The restructuring could create new opportunities for U.S.-China military contacts.

Author : National Research Council,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309057295

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International Friction and Cooperation in High-Technology Development and Trade by National Research Council,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy Pdf

Author : Serge Herzog
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032458856

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Defense Reform and Technology by Serge Herzog Pdf

To capture the defense reform debate surrounding the proper application of high technology in military systems, this study focuses on tactical aircraft, an area epitomizing cutting-edge technology. Air combat history is revisited (including the 1991 Persian Gulf War) to confirm, reject, or qualify positions advocating certain technologies in tactical aviation. Emphasis is placed on enduring combat ideas and aircraft design principles. The interaction between mission requirements, inventory composition, and aircraft design is discussed to illustrate the dynamics of constrained choice that enters acquisition decisions. The relevance of reform arguments in the post-Cold War era is assessed, including the impact of political and economic constraints on future force-mix options, the shift from NATO-centered contingencies to Third World Low Intensity Conflict (LIC), and the threat of conventional arms proliferation.

Author : Martin Edmonds,Michael M. Tsai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415652162

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Taiwan's Defense Reform by Martin Edmonds,Michael M. Tsai Pdf

The stand-off across the Straits of Taiwan continues to be one of the most dangerous confrontations in Asia. The technical superiority of the Taiwanese forces has been a major factor in maintaining balance, but as mainland China's armed forces modernize, Taiwan's advantages are being eroded. In response, Taiwan has recently undertaken a major reform of its armed forces. Bringing together a wide range of experts including people who are involved in defence policy making in Taiwan, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of these reforms, and assesses their likely effectiveness. Chapters are devoted to issues including the Chinese threat, the domestic context of reform, the role of the United States and specific defence issues, making the book an invaluable guide to the changes undertaken and underway within Taiwan’s strategic environment. With a foreword by Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan's Defense Reformwill be of interest to policy makers and academics working in this vital strategic area.

Author : Gurmeet Kanwal,Neha Kohli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Defense industries
ISBN : 9386618346

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Defence Reforms by Gurmeet Kanwal,Neha Kohli Pdf

Keeping in mind the necessity as well as the urgency of reform, this volume brings together practitioners as well as researchers on defence issues, on the key issue of defence reforms. The aim is not just to interrogate the status of reforms in current times but to also place the issue before a wider readership.

Author : T. Bruneau,H. Trinkunas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230611054

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Global Politics of Defense Reform by T. Bruneau,H. Trinkunas Pdf

This volume highlights the impact of global trends on defense reform and civil-military relations, including phenomena such as globalization and economic liberalization that are not usually associated with such matters.

Author : Rosa Brooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476777863

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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything by Rosa Brooks Pdf

Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions-- but the Pentagon also offers food courts, banks, drugstores, florists, and chocolate shops. It is rather symbolic of the way that the U.S. military has become our one-stop-shopping solution to global problems. Brooks traces this seismic shift in how America wages war, and provides a rallying cry for action as we undermine the values and rules that keep our world from sliding toward chaos.

Author : Defence reform Steering Group
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0108510662

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Defence reform by Defence reform Steering Group Pdf

The Defence Reform was launched in August 2010 as a fundamental review of how Defence is structured and managed. Many of the issues are not new and have been noted by similar reviews. The Steering Group believes an effective MOD is one which builds on the strengths of the individual Services and the Civil Service and does so within a single Defence framework that ensures the whole is more than the sum of its parts. A key driver for this review has been the Department's over-extended programme, to which the existing departmental management structure and management structure and behaviours contributed. Many of the Steering Group's proposals are designed to help prevent the Department from getting into such a poor financial position in the future and to put it in the position to make real savings. There are 53 recommendations the key ones of which are: to create a new and smaller Defence Board chaired by the Defence Secretary to strengthen top level decision making; to clarify the responsibilities of senior leaders, including the Permanent Secretary and the Chief of the Defence Staff; make the Head Office smaller and more strategic, to make high level balance of investment decisions, set strategic direction and a strong corporate framework; focus the Service Chiefs on running their Services and empower them to perform their role effectively with greater freedom to manage; strengthen financial and performance management throughout the Department to ensure future plans are affordable; create a 4 star led Joint Forces Command; create single, coherent Defence Infrastructure and Defence Business Services organisations; manage and use less senior military and civil personnel more effectively, people staying in post longer, more transparent and joint career management.

Author : Daniel R. Lake
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349786817

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The Pursuit of Technological Superiority and the Shrinking American Military by Daniel R. Lake Pdf

Why has the US military begun to suffer from overstretch in recent decades? Why is one of the largest militaries in the world, and the most expensive by far, periodically stressed by the operational demands placed upon it? This book argues that recent problems with overstretch are the result of a heavy reliance on technology to solve tactical and strategic problems. Over the last seven decades, the US armed services have consistently chosen to push the technological frontier out in an effort to first gain, and then maintain, qualitative superiority over potential foes. The high procurement and support costs associated with cutting-edge weapon systems has resulted in a military that is shrinking in both absolute size and in the relative share of combat forces. The culmination of this process is a US military that increasingly lacks the capacity needed to conduct operations without putting significant stress on its personnel and equipment. Lake argues that this pattern is a manifestation of an American cultural disposition favoring technology. He shows that this affinity for technology is present in the organizational cultures of all the armed services, though not to the same degree. By examining procurement programs for each armed service, this book reveals how attempts to develop and leverage superior technology has resulted in some notable program failures, high procurement costs for the latest generation of equipment with associated production cuts, and the high support requirements that are causing the relative share of combat forces to shrink. Lake’s analysis of recent initiatives by the armed services suggests that this pattern is likely to continue, with the US military remaining prone to overstretch whenever its operational tempo increases above the peacetime baseline.

Author : Amitav Mallik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0199271763

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Technology and Security in the 21st Century by Amitav Mallik Pdf

Author : Great Britain: Ministry of Defence
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 010179892X

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Equipment, support and technology for UK defence and security by Great Britain: Ministry of Defence Pdf

This Green Paper looks at the procurement of equipment, support, and technology for UK defence and security and follows on from the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) (ISBN 9780101794824), published on the 19th October 2010. The UK today faces a different and more complex range of threats than last century. The most serious threats include international terrorism, hostile attacks upon UK cyberspace, a major natural hazard or an international military crisis. Therefore the Government needs access to critical technologies and skills to underpin the UK's national security and to achieve these by setting out clear plans covering the following areas: (i) acquiring the equipment needed; (ii) support for the equipment and its users; (iii) investing or acquiring the necessary technologies to secure these objectives both now and in the future. This consultation paper and the responses it receives will form part of a White Paper to be published in 2011.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of International Affairs
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309050319

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Dual-Use Technologies and Export Control in the Post-Cold War Era by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of International Affairs Pdf

This book arises from a joint NAS-Russian Academy of Sciences program to explore possible new approaches to the control of sensitive dual-use technologies, with respect to expanded trade between Western advanced industrialized countries and the republics of the former Soviet Union as well as to the export trade of the Russian and other CIS republics with countries of proliferation concern.

Author : Great Britain: Ministry of Defence
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0101827822

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National security through technology by Great Britain: Ministry of Defence Pdf

This White Paper, divided into two parts, lays out the Government's policy objectives in relation to "National Security through Technology", particularly in relation to technology, equipment, and support for UK defence and security. Part 1: UK Defence and Security Procurement - sets out the Government's aims for the procurement of technology, equipment and support to meet the UK's defence and security needs; Part 2: The UK Defence and Security Industry - looks at the wider UK perspective, including growth, skills, and emerging sectors, within the context of defence and security procurement policy and at government action to encourage UK-based companies to fulfil defence requirements here and develop successful exports. The publication follows up and develops themes and issues raised in the Green Paper "Equipment, support and technology for UK defence and security: consultation paper" (Cm.7989, ISBN 9780101798921, published December 2010). A second publication, published alongside this White Paper, Cm. 8277 (ISBN 9780101827720), contains the Government's responses to the original Green Paper.

Author : Winslow T. Wheeler,Lawrence J. Korb
Publisher : Stanford Security Studies
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114463313

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Military Reform by Winslow T. Wheeler,Lawrence J. Korb Pdf

This volume helps the reader understand fundamental strengths and weaknesses in America's military forces, thereby leading to a comprehension of what genuine military reform is--and is not--and what remains to be done.