U S Defense Planning

Author : John M Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Henrik Breitenbauch,André Ken Jakobsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Michael J. Mazarr,Katharina Ley Best,Burgess Laird,Eric Victor Larson,Michael E. Linick,Dan Madden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : Congress
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210024828699

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Redesigning Defense by United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1568061544

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Redesigning Defense by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Author : Strategic Studies Strategic Studies Institute,U. S. Army U.S. Army War College Press
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 150581913X

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Defense Planning for National Security by Strategic Studies Strategic Studies Institute,U. S. Army U.S. Army War College Press Pdf

The purpose of this book is to explore and examine the challenge to America's defense planners of needing to make purposeful and prudent choices in military preparation for the future. The problem for defense planning that is beyond resolution is the scientifically certain fact that we have no data from the future about the future. Moreover, this will always be a fact. No matter the scholarly discipline and tradition to which a defense planner owes or feels most allegiance, he or she needs to recognize and attempt to understand fully a personal and institutional condition of awesome ignorance of detail about the future. Further study, more cunning analytical methodology, even more powerful computers-none of these can reveal with any certainty what the future will bring. Fortunately, this does not mean that we are ignorant about the future; but it does mean that defense planning is guesswork and can only be such. Understandably, both senior policymakers and soldiers tend to be reluctant, even to the point of appearing to be evasive, when legislators question the plausibility of the answers given in congressional hearings. After all, it can be troubling to the conscience of honest and competent people to be obliged to affirm the integrity of choices made in defense preparation for national security in years to come, when there is and can be no certain way to know that one is sufficiently correct.

Author : Glenn A. Kent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Military planning
ISBN : UCAL:B4231052

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A Framework for Defense Planning by Glenn A. Kent Pdf

This report presents an approach to strengthening the U.S. defense planning process. The approach centers on a simple but rigorous framework that links official statements of national security and national military strategy and the operational capabilities of force elements to programs for developing and procuring military systems and services. The author recommends adopting a force-planning procedure that includes the following elements: (1) an operational focus, (2) guidance to Department of Defense components in operational terms, (3) discussion at the level of force elements rather than systems and hardware, (4) outlines of capability goals, (5) allocation of resources to best overall effect, (6) a better process for decisionmaking, (7) streamlined process for upgrading basic systems, (8) determination of performance features of new basic systems, and (9) reduction of turmoil and paralysis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:227894585

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Planning America's Security; Lessons from the National Defense Panel by Anonim Pdf

This report reviews recent longer-term U.S. defense planning attempts, focusing especially on the NDP. The NDP was established as an independent effort to provide guidance to the Secretary of Defense and the Congress on matters pertaining to the long-term national security of the United States. This report reviews the motivations for creating the NDP, the NDP's relationship to the QDR, the NDP's administrative and logistical experience, and the substantive results the NDP published in its final report. We conclude by discussing in depth some of the lessons learned from the first NDP experience and distilling recommendations for the Congress, the administration, the Department of Defense (DoD), and future NDP management teams. The substantive recommendations of the NDP report were initially overshadowed by other events that dominated the news headlines in late 1997 and early 1998, most notably the crisis with Iraq. Nevertheless, the report was sufficiently pointed to generate considerable interest-and not a little controversy-within the defense and national security communities. Of particular interest was the report's focus on the need for the DoD to accelerate its reform efforts (the NDP called this a "transformation strategy") to better position itself to meet the numerous new and unpredictable challenges of the next 20 years.

Author : Paul K. Davis
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Paul K. Davis,Peter A. Wilson
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,8 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. National Resources Planning Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015035611014

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After Defense-- What? by United States. National Resources Planning Board Pdf

Author : Eric Victor Larson,David T. Orletsky,Kristin J Leuschner,Kristin Leuschner
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Philip S. Kronenberg
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003873802

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Planning U.S. Security by Philip S. Kronenberg Pdf

Author : Richard K. Betts
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815719477

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Surprise Attack by Richard K. Betts Pdf

Long before Germany's blitzkrieg swept the West, European leaders had received many signals of its imminence. Stalin, too, had abundant warning of German designs on Russia but believed that by avoiding "provocative" defensive measures he could avert the attack that finally came in June 1941. And the stories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Korean War, and three Arab-Israeli conflicts are replete with missed opportunities to react to unmistakable warnings. Richad K. Betts analyzes surprise attacks during the mid-twentieth century to illustrate his thesis: surprise attacks occur, not because intelligence services fail to warn, but because of the disbelief of political leaders. "Although the probability is low that the United States will fail to deter direct attack by the Soviet Union," Betts says, "the intensity of the threat warrants painstaking analysis of how to cope with it." His own investigation of the historical, psychological, political, diplomatic, and military aspects of his subject heightens understanding of why surprise attacks succeed and why victim nations fail to respond to warnings. In discussing current policy he focuses on the defense of Western Europe and applies the lessons of history to U.S. defense planning, offering detailed recommendations for changes in strategy. Obviously some of the potential dangers of military surprise cannot be prevented. The important thing, he emphasizes, is that "without forces that exceed requirements (the solution Moscow appears to have chosen), it is vital to ensure that what forces exist can be brought to bear when needed.