New Challenges For Defense Planning

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822016970501

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New Challenges for Defense Planning by Paul K. Davis Pdf

This book is a collection of essays by senior defense analysts at RAND, all of whom have been deeply involved in post-Cold War defense planning studies for the Department of Defense. The essays cover a wide spectrum of issues, including alternative strategies and structures for defense planning, conventional deterrence of Third World opponents, modernizing weapon systems and force structures, and planning under uncertainty (a major theme of the book as a whole). Some of the essays are sympathetic to current U.S. methods and policies, whereas others are critical, arguing that radical changes are needed. Taken as a whole, the book provides a provocative cross section of work by experts who understand both the theoretical issues and the practical considerations that the Department of Defense must address. The book will be of interest to policymakers, students of defense planning, and other readers seeking to understand the challenges and choices confronting defense planners as we approach the end of the century.

Author : Stuart E. Johnson,Martin C. Libicki,Gregory F. Treverton
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780833034106

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New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking by Stuart E. Johnson,Martin C. Libicki,Gregory F. Treverton Pdf

It is still easy to underestimate how much the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War?--and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001?--transformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. In place of predictability (if a sometimes terrifying predictability), the world is now very unpredictable. In place of a single overriding threat and benchmark by which all else could be measured, a number of possible threats have arisen, not all of them states. In place of force-on-force engagements, U.S. defense planners have to assume "asymmetric" threats?--ways not to defeat U.S. power but to render it irrelevant. This book frames the challenges for defense policy that the transformed world engenders, and it sketches new tools for dealing with those challenges?--from new techniques in modeling and gaming, to planning based on capabilities rather than threats, to personnel planning and making use of "best practices" from the private sector.

Author : Michael J. Mazarr,Katharina Ley Best,Burgess Laird,Eric Victor Larson,Michael E. Linick,Dan Madden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0833099906

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The U.S. Department of Defense's Planning Process by Michael J. Mazarr,Katharina Ley Best,Burgess Laird,Eric Victor Larson,Michael E. Linick,Dan Madden Pdf

This report describes the current defense planning process used by the U.S. Department of Defense, with a focus on how scenarios are developed and employed to support defense planning.

Author : Henrik Breitenbauch,André Ken Jakobsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000732177

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Defence Planning as Strategic Fact by Henrik Breitenbauch,André Ken Jakobsson Pdf

Defence Planning as Strategic Fact provides and elaborates on an "upstream" focus on the variegated organizational, political and conceptual practices of military, civilian administrative and political leaderships involved in defence planning, offering an important security and strategic studies supplement to the traditional "downstream" focus on the use of force. The book enables the reader to engage with the role of ideas in defence planning, of organizational processes and biases, path dependencies and administrative dynamics under the pressures of continuously changing domestic and international constraints. The chapters show how defence planning must be seen as a constitutive element of defence and strategic studies – that it is a strategic fact of its own which merits particular practical and scholarly attention. As defence planning creates the conditions behind every peace upheld or broken and every war won or lost, Defence Planning as Strategic Fact will be of great use to scholars of defence studies, strategic studies, and military studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Defence Studies.

Author : Eric Victor Larson,David T. Orletsky,Kristin J Leuschner,Kristin Leuschner
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0833030248

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Defense Planning in a Decade of Change by Eric Victor Larson,David T. Orletsky,Kristin J Leuschner,Kristin Leuschner Pdf

The end of the Cold War ushered in an era of profound change in the international arena and hence in the policymaking environment as well. Yet the changes that have characterized the post-Cold War era have often proceeded at different paces and have at times moved in opposing directions, placing unprecedented strain on policymakers seeking to shape a new national security and military strategy. This report describes the challenges policymakers have faced as seen through the lens of the three major force structure reviews that have taken place over the past decade: the 1990 Base Force, the 1993 Bottom-Up Review, and the 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review. The report focuses on the assumptions, decisions, and outcomes associated with these reviews as well as the planning and execution of each. It concludes that all three reviews fell short of fully apprehending the demands of the emerging threat environment, and the budgets that would be needed and afforded, resulting in a growing imbalance between strategy, forces, and resources over the decade. Accordingly, the report recommends that future defense planners adopt an assumption-based approach in which key planning assumptions are continually reassessed with a view toward recognizing--and rapidly responding to--emerging gaps and shortfalls.

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198701842

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Strategy and Defence Planning by Colin S. Gray Pdf

This title explores and examines why and how security communities prepare purposefully for their future defence. Professor Gray argues that our understanding of human nature, of politics, and of strategic history, does allow us to make prudent choices in defence planning.

Author : Robert J. Lempert,Drake Warren,Ryan Henry,Robert W. Button,Jonathan Klenk,Kate Giglio
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833091673

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Defense Resource Planning Under Uncertainty by Robert J. Lempert,Drake Warren,Ryan Henry,Robert W. Button,Jonathan Klenk,Kate Giglio Pdf

Defense planning faces significant uncertainties. This report applies robust decision making (RDM) to the munitions mix challenge, to demonstrate how RDM could help defense planners make plans more robust to a wide range of hard-to-predict futures.

Author : Stephan Frühling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317817840

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Defence Planning and Uncertainty by Stephan Frühling Pdf

How can countries decide what kind of military forces they need, if threats are uncertain and history is full of strategic surprises? This is a question that is more pertinent than ever, as countries across the Asia-Pacific are faced with the military and economic rise of China. Uncertainty is inherent in defence planning, but different types of uncertainty mean that countries need to approach decisions about military force structure in different ways. This book examines four different basic frameworks for defence planning, and demonstrates how states can make decisions coherently about the structure and posture of their defence forces despite strategic uncertainty. It draws on case studies from the United States, Australian and New Zealand, each of which developed key concepts for their particular circumstances and risk perception in Asia. Success as well as failure in developing coherent defence planning frameworks holds lessons for the United States and other countries as they consider how best to structure their military forces for the uncertain challenges of the future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428914711

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U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Planning: The Missing Nexus by Anonim Pdf

This is the pilot in a series of reports on strategic planning conducted within the U.S. Department of Defense. It focuses on the strategic planning responsibilities of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff because planning at that level provides the critical nexus between the strategic direction provided by the National Command Authorities and its implementation by the unified combatant commands and military departments. The authors' thorough understanding of the statutory requirements for strategic planning and the interactions between the Chairman's complex strategic planning process and other key DOD planning systems enables them to explicate today's strategic planning challenges and offer insightful recommendations. Strategic planning in the post-Cold War era has proven to be exceptionally problematic. The plethora of national and international tensions that the east-west confrontation of the Cold War in large measure subdued combine now to create a world replete with diverse challenges to U.S. interests. Equally disturbing is the fact that these challenges are not as clearly defined and easily articulated as was the monolithic Soviet threat. The authors point out that the Cold War provided inherent stability in U.S. strategic planning and that the basic elements of a strategic military plan evolved over time. They go on to argue that the elimination of the National Military Strategy Document and the abandonment of the Base Case Global Family of Operation Plans amounted to recision of the Chairman's strategic plan, and that nothing has been developed to take its place.

Author : John M Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000010657

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U.S. Defense Planning by John M Collins Pdf

Superior defense plans fuse political, economic, military, technological, and sociological power in ways that cover state interests, while conserving resources to the greatest prudent extent. Poor products can increase costs without reducing risks, because forces and funds that support slipshod schemes often fail to furnish security. This critical appraisal of the U.5. defense planning system seeks to serve a five-fold purpose: set assessment standards, appraise U.S. planning in principle, appraise U.5. planning in practice, identify U.S. planning problems and present optional courses of corrective action. The study shows how domestic and foreign policy inputs from the White House, National 5ecurity Council, and State Department affect defense planning.

Author : Stephan Frühling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317817857

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Defence Planning and Uncertainty by Stephan Frühling Pdf

How can countries decide what kind of military forces they need, if threats are uncertain and history is full of strategic surprises? This is a question that is more pertinent than ever, as countries across the Asia-Pacific are faced with the military and economic rise of China. Uncertainty is inherent in defence planning, but different types of uncertainty mean that countries need to approach decisions about military force structure in different ways. This book examines four different basic frameworks for defence planning, and demonstrates how states can make decisions coherently about the structure and posture of their defence forces despite strategic uncertainty. It draws on case studies from the United States, Australian and New Zealand, each of which developed key concepts for their particular circumstances and risk perception in Asia. Success as well as failure in developing coherent defence planning frameworks holds lessons for the United States and other countries as they consider how best to structure their military forces for the uncertain challenges of the future.

Author : Paul K. Davis,Peter A. Wilson
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0833052101

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Looming Discontinuities in U.S. Military Strategy and Defense Planning by Paul K. Davis,Peter A. Wilson Pdf

A discontinuity in U.S. defense planning may be looming because of diffusion of inexpensive military technology, geostrategic changes, and the need to prepare forces for diverse adversary types. The way ahead is not yet clear, and economic constraints are a problem. It also seems that the nation needs a comprehensive rebalancing of national security strategy, not just of military capabilities.

Author : United States Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1982005149

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Defense Planning by United States Government Accountability Office Pdf

DEFENSE PLANNING: DOD Needs Specific Measures and Milestones to Gauge Progress of Preparations for Operational Access Challenges

Author : Rand Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632939200

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Framework for Defense Planning by Rand Corporation Pdf

Author : Pat Allen Pentland
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : National security
ISBN : 9781428980686

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Creating Defense Excellence by Pat Allen Pentland Pdf

The Department of Defense (DoD) has gone through some monumental changes in the last two decades, and it faces some enormous future challenges. The changes include the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reform Act of 1986, which realigned authorities and responsibilities in the defense establishment, and the end of the Cold War, which brought about significant reductions in force structure. The challenges encompass the rise of new commitments and missions, the problem of adapting revolutionary information technology, and the evident need to reshape DoD's support systems, processes, and infrastructure. Both the changes and the challenges have made the need for defense reform evident. Numerous studies, commissions, panels, and Congressional reports have revolved around the single issue of transforming the Department to cope with the security needs of the 21st century. This Addendum offers recommendations that focus on structure and process, but here the NSSG also clearly states a vision--a set of desired outcomes--if the Department is to implement these recommendations. Thus, this summary aims to avoid a stovepiped examination of individual recommendations. Rather it offers an overview of the major recommendations and how they mutually reinforce each other to create excellence. This effort suggests seven future DoD outcome-oriented objectives worthy of pursuit that, if implemented, would make a remarkable difference in America's national security posture.