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Author : Alfred Goldberg,Steven L. Rearden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : National security
ISBN : MINN:31951D01417222W
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:84601133
Author : Robert J. Watson,Historical Office,Office of the Secretary of Defense
Publisher : Military History Publishing
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1780394403
Drawing on extensive primary and archive source material this volume traces the development of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) from 1956 through 1960 during the eventful tenures of three secretaties: Charles E. Wilson, Neil H. McElroy and Thomas S. Gates, Jr. It focuses on the secretaties of defense, their staff. and the administration of the Pentagon within the larger framework of national security policy making and execution.
Author : Alfred Goldberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCBK:C061256597
Author : Alfred Goldberg,Steven L. Rearden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : National security
ISBN : UIUC:30112048196312
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556032066128
Author : C. Bright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230112926
Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. These Army "Nike-Hercules" missiles, Air Force "Genie" rockets, and "BOMARC" and "Falcon" missiles were meant to counter a raid by attacking Soviet bombers. U.S. policy makers believed that the American weapons could safely compensate for technological limitations which otherwise made it difficult to destroy high flying, fast moving airplanes. Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era traces this armament from conception through deployment. Bright recounts official actions, doctrinal decisions, and public policies. It also discusses the widespread acceptance of these weapons by the American public, a result of being touted in news releases, featured in films and television episodes, and disseminated throughout society as a whole.
Author : Chiang H. Ren
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351708623
The Fundamentals of Developing Operational Solutions for the Government guides professionals on how to use operations research to solve problems and capture opportunities for government customers. The governments of modern democratic nations manage large complex societal operations to offer national defense, social services, infrastructure sustainment, law enforcement, monetary control, and other benefits for their citizens. The United States government alone spends over $1 trillion per year on these discretionary activities. Within all the spending, deliveries, and oversight, some operational needs require solutions to improve processes, architectures, technologies, and human factors. Without such effective and comprehensive solutions, the most eloquent proposal for government work could end in defeat and the most well-funded government programs could yield operational disruptions and performance failures. There are many books on how to write winning proposals to the government, but this book places winning in the context of deeply understanding government operations and innovatively solving government problems. There are also some books on convincing the government to adopt new transformational processes, but this book seeks to first try to fix current government processes before demanding risky transformation. Finally, there are massive tomes dedicated to the theories and mathematical models of operations research, but this book is devoted to making operations research simple enough for professionals to apply throughout the course of developing proposals and delivering products and services. Presenting the methods and techniques for quickly developing solutions is thus the central focus.
Author : Elliott Vanveltner Converse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cold War
ISBN : STANFORD:36105214588126
Author : Paul A. C. Koistinen
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700618743
In his farewell speech, President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned us of the dangers of a military-industrial complex (MIC). In Paul Koistinen's sobering new book, that warning appears to have been both prophetic and largely ignored. As the final volume in his magisterial study of the political economy of American warfare, State of War describes the bipolar world that developed from the rivalry between the U.S. and USSR, showing how seventy years of defense spending have bred a monster that has sunk its claws into the very fabric of American life. Koistinen underscores how during the second half of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first, the United States for the first time in its history began to maintain large military structures during peacetime. Many factors led to that result: the American economy stood practically alone in a war-ravaged world; the federal government, especially executive authority, was at the pinnacle of its powers; the military accumulated unprecedented influence over national security; and weaponry became much more sophisticated following World War II. Koistinen describes how the rise of the MIC was preceded by a gradual process of institutional adaptation and then supported and reinforced by the willing participation of Big Science and its industrial partners, the broader academic world, and a proliferation of think tanks. He also evaluates the effects of ongoing defense budgets within the context of the nation's economy since the 1950s. Over time, the MIC effectively blocked efforts to reduce expenditures, control the arms race, improve relations with adversaries, or adopt more enlightened policies toward the developing world-all the while manipulating the public on behalf of national security to sustain the warfare state. Now twenty years after the Soviet Union's demise, defense budgets are higher than at any time during the Cold War. As Koistinen observes, more than six decades of militaristic mobilization for stabilizing a turbulent world have firmly entrenched the state of war as a state of mind for our nation. Collectively, his five-volume opus provides an unparalleled analysis of the economics of America's wars from the colonial period to the present, illuminating its impact upon the nation's military campaigns, foreign policy, and domestic life.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03758339H
Author : Bert Chapman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030013677
This book analyzes the development and evolution of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a multinational aircraft endeavor involving the U.S. and many of its allies. The author provides a historical overview of jet fighter aircraft, discussing the different generations of these planes and their technical characteristics, as well as an outline of emerging international geopolitical and security trends the F-35 may see combat in. By examining the role of defense industries, domestic politics, and governmental oversight of the Joint Strike Fighter in various countries, the author concludes that this aircraft will be deployed in most of these countries to replace their aging jet fighter fleets and combat potential military aggression from China, Russia, and other revisionist international powers.
Author : Steven L. Rearden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754082445978
Author : Elliott Vanveltner Converse
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cold War
ISBN : IND:30000143029076
Book Description: The first publication in a multivolume series on the history of the acquisition of major weapon systems by the Department of Defense, author Elliott Converse presents a meticulously researched overview of changes in acquisition policies, organizations, and processes within the United States military establishment during the decade and a half following World War II. Many of the changes that shaped the nature and course of weapons research and development, production, and contracting through the end of the century were instituted between 1945 and 1960; many of the problems that have repeatedly challenged defense policymakers and acquisition professionals also first surfaced during these years. This study is the first to combine the histories of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the military services into one account. The volume is organized chronologically, with individual chapters addressing the roles of OSD, the Army, Navy and Air Force in two distinct periods.
Author : Jeffrey E. Geiger
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476614243
During World War II, hundreds of military training installations were built throughout the United States to prepare servicemen for the rigors of overseas combat. One such installation was Camp Cooke in California, which since 1957 has become an internationally recognized missile and rocket base renamed Vandenberg Air Force Base. This book examines the history of the camp, starting with its construction. Established some 150 miles north of Los Angeles, Cooke was designed for armored divisions, but by the end of the war hundreds of other specialized organizations trained there. It supported many USO clubs and attracted some of Hollywood's leading entertainers as well as many from radio and stage. With the outbreak of the Korean War, Cooke supported Army National Guard and reserve units. Its large hospital cared for war evacuees and Army medical cases from other parts of the globe. When it became an Air Force base, America's first spy satellite program was conducted from there. The intelligence data collected from these missions exploded the myth of a "missile gap" with the Soviet Union. At the height of the Cold War, America's first ICBM missile equipped with a nuclear warhead was based at Vandenberg.
