Download or read book A System Dynamics Approach to Modeling the U S Arms Transfer Process written by Mark Edward Nickell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transfer of arms between countries plays a significant role in the political, economic, and military affairs of the entire world, and is, consequently, subject to constant criticism and review from many quarters. Because of the complexity of the relationships in, and the diversity of opinion about arms transfers, a concise policy which will satisfy everyone is virtually impossible to devise. This thesis is an attempt to bring together all of the significant variables concerning the arms transfer system, with particular emphasis on the welfare of United States' national interests. While this model will not be able to produce policies which will keep all interested parties satisfied, it should depict the consequences of arms transfer decisions in terms of the major variables. The model will also facilitate the examination of policies such as the dollar ceiling on sales in terms of impact on the strategic position and economy of the United States.

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Download or read book A Dynamic Policy Model of the United States Arms Transfer Process written by Douglas C. Chipman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transfer of arms between countries plays a significant role in the political, economic, and military affairs of the entire world, and is, consequently, subject to constant criticism and review from many quarters. Because of the complexity of the relationships in, and the diversity of opinion about arms transfer, a concise policy which will satisfy everyone is virtually impossible to devise. This thesis is an attempt to bring together all of the significant variables concerning the arms transfer system, with particular emphasis on the welfare of United States national interests. While this model will not be able to produce policies which will keep all interested parties satisfied, it should depict the consequences of arms transfer decisions in terms of the major variables. The model will also facilitate the examination of policies such as the dollar ceiling on sales in terms of impact on the strategic position and economy of the United States. (Author).

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Download or read book Quantitative Assessment in Arms Control written by Rudolf Avenhaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book originates in a series of contributions to the 1983 Systems Science Seminar at the Computer Science Department of the German Armed Forces University Munich. Under the topic "Quantita tive Approaches to Arms Control" that seminar attempted to review the present state-of-the-art of systems analysis and numerate meth ods in arms control. To this end, the editors invited a number of experts from Europe, the United St~tes and Canada to share and dis cuss their views and assessments with the faculty and upper class computer science students of the university as well as numerous guests from the defence community and the interested public. In three parts, this book presents a selection of partly re vised and somewhat extended versions of the seminar presentations followed, in most cases, by brief summaries of the transcripts of the respective discussions. In addition to an introduction by the editors, part I contains six papers on the present state and prob lems of arms control with emphasis on START (Strategic Arms Re duction Talks), INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces negotia tions), and MBFR (Mutually Balanced Force Reduction talks). The seven contributions to part II are devoted to mathematical models of arms competition and quantitative approaches to force balance assessment of both, the static and dynamic variety. Part III pre sents five papers which address technical and operational aspects and legal implications of arms control negotiations and verifica tion.

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