Download or read book Post Cold War Defense Reform written by Istvan Gyarmati and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents case studies of defense reform initiatives in more than twenty countries.
Download or read book Defense Policymaking written by Michael A. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the ability of the President, Congress and Armed Services to formulate and implement defense policy that eliminates duplication and inefficiencies within service roles and missions. The hypothesis examined is that the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the four military Services will be unable to formulate any significant changes in their own roles and missions because there is a dichotomy between what the Services see as significant change (read structure) and what Congress sees as significant change (read budget). The Services inability to make change will force Congress to take the lead in the defense reform effort. However, congressional efforts to formulate and implement defense policy will prove imperfect again, unless Congress can first reform itself. Secretary Defense Les Aspin has the best opportunity to formulate and implement defense policy for a post-Cold War environment. This thesis begins with a brief overview on the origins of the present day roles and missions debate, and is followed by an examination of the Goldwater-Nichols Act that provides insight as to how legislators might work with or against the President and Services in reallocating service roles and missions. The current debate over service roles and missions is examined along with constraints and implications of defense policymaking. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Congress, Service Roles Missions and Functions, Defense Policymaking, Executive Branch, Post-Cold War, Defense Reform, National Security Act of 1947, The 1948 Key West Agreement, Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986.
Download or read book Neoclassical Realism and Defence Reform in Post Cold War Europe written by T. Dyson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dyson explains the convergence and divergence between British, French and German defence reforms in the post-Cold War era. He engages with cultural and realist theories and develops a neoclassical realist approach to change and stasis in defence policy, bringing new material to bear on the factors which have affected defence reforms.
Download or read book The Politics of German Defence and Security written by Tom Dyson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post-Cold War era has witnessed a dramatic transformation in the German political consensus about the legitimacy of the use of force. However, in comparison with its EU and NATO partners, Germany has been reticent to transform its military to meet the challenges of the contemporary security environment. Until 2003 territorial defence rather than crisis-management remained the armed forces' core role and the Bundeswehr continues to retain conscription. The book argues that 'strategic culture' provides only a partial explanation of German military reform. It demonstrates how domestic material factors were of crucial importance in shaping the pace and outcome of reform, despite the impact of 'international structure' and adaptational pressures from the EU and NATO. The domestic politics of base closures, ramifications for social policy, financial restrictions consequent upon German unification and commitment to EMU's Stability and Growth Pact were critical in determining the outcome of reform. The study also draws out the important role of policy leaders in the political management of reform as entrepreneurs, brokers or veto players, shifting the focus in German leadership studies away from a preoccupation with the Chancellor to the role of ministerial and administrative leadership within the core executive. Finally, the book contributes to our understanding of the Europeanization of the German political system, arguing that policy leaders played a key role in 'uploading' and 'downloading' processes to and from the EU and that Defence Ministers used 'Atlanticization' and 'Europeanization' in the interests of their domestic political agendas.
Download or read book American Defense Reform written by Dave Oliver and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American Defense Reform, retired admiral and defense executive Dave Oliver and historian Anand Toprani use US naval history as a guide for leading successful change in the Pentagon. The authors show that change comes from collaboration between civilians, the military, and industry that leverages each groups' strengths for the collective good.
Download or read book The Security Watershed written by Alexei G. Arbatov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1993, is an analytical review that discusses the changes in the international security policies of the USA and USSR at the end of the Cold War, as well as the main events that occurred in the area of arms control. A distinctive feature of this work is the detailed analysis of competing Russian views concerning arms control agreements and Russian military reforms.
Download or read book The Post cold War American Defense Industry written by Ann R. Markusen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East European Military Reform After the Cold War written by Thomas S. Szayna and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The armed forces were among the institutions most profoundly affected by the collapse of communist rule throughout Eastern Europe. The authors focus on the process of military reform in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia, examining how the process of overcoming the Soviet legacy to the militaries of the six countries has unfolded. Among the troublesome aspects of this topic, the report discusses the tensions that emerged in civil-military relations, the effects of personnel disruptions, and the problems encountered in the restructuring and modernization of forces. The authors consider the implications of these developments for the United States and offer some recommendations for policies to further encourage and consolidate the process of military reform in Eastern Europe.
Download or read book Towards Security Sector Reform in Post Cold War Europe written by Wilhelm N. Germann and published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security Sector Reform (SSR) is a broad and ambitious notion that concerns establishing and improving those security relationships and architectures most commonly associated with liberal democracy. Starting from the premise that there is no universally applicable model for SSR, this volume explores the question how best to evaluate SSR in European context and analyses the conditions for determining and confirming criteria of success in this regard. The systematic gathering, analysing and evaluating of international expertise in democratic control, management and reform of the security sector is one of the main functions of the Geneva Centre of the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).
Download or read book Getting it Right written by James F. Dunnigan and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the Army as a framework--but including all branches of the service--this is an insider's look at how major reforms in the US armed forces since Vietnam led to success in the Gulf War and improved changes for success in the future. Dunnigan has appeared on Larry King Live, NBC News, Today, and ABC. Charts.
Download or read book Reform and Experimentation After the Cold War 1989 2001 written by Philip Shiman and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reform and Experimentation after the Cold War, the 5th volume in the series History of Acquisition in the Department of Defense, focuses on the adoption in the 1990s of new concepts and methods for acquiring major weapon systems. The changes came from several quarters--the White House, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the military services, and Congress--and in response to numerous pressures. The most important of these were the end of the Cold War and the resulting decline in defense spending; advances in weapons technology, especially information technology; and the widespread belief that the acquisition system was failing to deliver the weapon systems the nation needed, when it needed them, and at a cost it was willing to pay. Both President George H. W. Bush and President William J. "Bill" Clinton made correcting acquisition's perceived weaknesses a high priority. Reforms aimed at decreasing the time required to develop and field advanced weapon systems while reducing their cost, strengthening acquisition management and organizations, improving the quality and professionalism of the acquisition workforce, forging new relationships with the defense industry, and tapping the commercial economy for leading-edge technologies, innovative business practices, and finished products easily installed in or adapted to military systems. Despite the many changes of the 1990s, decades-long trends continued: reliance on technologically superior weapons to gain advantage over potential opponents, the centralization of acquisition management in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and congressional push for greater oversight. In-depth case studies of major weapon system programs illustrate how acquisition functioned, particularly in adapting to reforms that sometimes succeeded, sometimes failed, and sometimes had no impact on program outcomes. Taken as a whole, however, the reforms made the acquisition community better able to adopt innovations and best practices from the private sector, more responsive to the users of systems, and more capable of designing policies, organizations, and procedures to address the security threats of the new century"--
Download or read book Building A Peace Economy written by Betty G. Lall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how to make the smoothest possible transition to civilian use of newly released military resources, especially the physical and human resources that have been devoted to defense production and thereby help people make the required economic adjustment.
Download or read book Mission Failure written by Michael Mandelbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mission Failure argues that, in the past 25 years, the U.S. military has turned to missions that are largely humanitarian and socio-political - and that this ideologically-driven foreign policy generally leads to failure.
Download or read book Russian Threats to United States Security in the Post cold War Era written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transforming Defense written by Conrad C. Crane and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the Bush administration in Washington began its defense reviews, the topic of transforming America
Download or read book Anatomy of Post Communist European Defense Institutions written by Thomas-Durell Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the West won the Cold War, the continuation of the status quo is not a foregone conclusion. The former Soviet-aligned regions outside of Russia -- Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, and others -- sit atop decaying armed forces while Russian behavior has grown more and more aggressive, as evidenced by its intervention in Ukraine in recent years. Thomas Young delves into the state of these defense institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, whose resources have declined at a faster rate than their Western neighbors' due to social and fiscal circumstances at home and shifting attitudes in the wider international community. With rigorous attention to the nuances of each region's politics and policies, he documents the status of reform of these armed forces and the role that Western nations have played since the Cold War, as well as identifying barriers to success and which management practices have been most effective in both Western and Eastern capitals. This is essential reading for undergraduates and graduates studying the recent history of Europe in the post-Soviet era, as well as those professionally involved in defense governance in the region.
Download or read book From Reform to Reduction Reports on the Management of Navy and Department of Defense Laboratories in the Post Cold War Era written by Eric Hazell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy laboratory system has played a significant role in the technological superiority of the Navy and Marine Corps in peace and war in every era from today's Global War on Terrorism, back through the Cold War, Vietnam, Korea, WWII, and even to its very beginnings in the Civil War. This system has created Nobel laureates, fostered the creation of operational radar, sonar, and most of the fundamental capabilities found in space today. It has helped unlock some of the basic secrets of our natural environment, particularly in the oceans, atmosphere, and space. It has routinely been ranked in the very top tier in intellectual property productivity in the United States. The lab system has been involved from the conceptual development all the way to operational testing and fielding of every major weapons system our Marines and Sailors have used for generations. Often that delivery of practical technology has involved substantial partnerships with or transfers-for-production to the U.S. technical defense industry.
