Author: United States. Department of DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Report of Secretary of Defense to the Congress on the ... Defense Budget and ... Defense Program
Author: United States. Department of DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Report of Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger to the Congress on the FY 1976 and Transition Budgets
Author: United States. Department of DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Statement of Secretary of Defense ... Before the House Armed Services Committee on the ... Defense Budget and ... Program
Author: United States. Department of DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Statement of Secretary of Defense Before the House Armed Services Committee on the Defense Budget and Program
Author: United States. Dept. of DefensePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Fiscal Year 1976 and July-September 1976 Transition Period Authorization for Military Procurement, Research and Development, and Active Duty, Selected Reserve, and Civilian Personnel Strengths
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Forging the Sword
Author: Benjamin JensenPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804797382
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
As entrenched bureaucracies, military organizations might reasonably be expected to be especially resistant to reform and favor only limited, incremental adjustments. Yet, since 1945, the U.S. Army has rewritten its capstone doctrine manual, Operations, fourteen times. While some modifications have been incremental, collectively they reflect a significant evolution in how the Army approaches warfare—making the U.S. Army a crucial and unique case of a modern land power that is capable of change. So what accounts for this anomaly? What institutional processes have professional officers developed over time to escape bureaucracies' iron cage? Forging the Sword conducts a comparative historical process-tracing of doctrinal reform in the U.S. Army. The findings suggest that there are unaccounted-for institutional facilitators of change within military organizations. Thus, it argues that change in military organizations requires "incubators," designated subunits established outside the normal bureaucratic hierarchy, and "advocacy networks" championing new concepts. Incubators, ranging from special study groups to non-Title 10 war games and field exercises, provide a safe space for experimentation and the construction of new operational concepts. Advocacy networks then connect different constituents and inject them with concepts developed in incubators. This injection makes changes elites would have otherwise rejected a contagious narrative.
Defense Management Journal
Author: The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy
Author: Matthew KroenigPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190849185
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack. So long as the US, or any other nation, retains such an assured retaliation capability, no sane leader would intentionally launch a nuclear attack against it, and nuclear deterrence will hold. According to this theory, possessing more weapons than necessary for a second-strike capability is illogical. This argument is reasonable, but, when compared to the empirical record, it raises an important puzzle. Empirically, we see that the United States has always maintained a nuclear posture that is much more robust than a mere second-strike capability. In The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy, Matthew Kroenig challenges the conventional wisdom and explains why a robust nuclear posture, above and beyond a mere second-strike capability, contributes to a state's national security goals. In fact, when a state has a robust nuclear weapons force, such a capability reduces its expected costs in a war, provides it with bargaining leverage, and ultimately enhances nuclear deterrence. This book provides a novel theoretical explanation for why military nuclear advantages translate into geopolitical advantages. In so doing, it helps resolve one of the most-intractable puzzles in international security studies. Buoyed by an innovative thesis and a vast array of historical and quantitative evidence, The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy will force scholars to reconsider their basic assumptions about the logic of nuclear deterrence.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Armed Services
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1678
Book Description
Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents
Author: United States. Defense Logistics Studies Information ExchangePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description