Download or read book Status of U S Strategic Power Hearings Before the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee written by United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Status of U S Strategic Power written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services.Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews status and theory of U.S. nuclear capabilities. Focuses on military commitments, principle of strategic deterrence through mutual assured destruction, and the need for development of countervailing weapons systems to maintain favorable U.S. balance of power in face of increased Soviet nuclear strike capabilities.
Download or read book Accounting at War written by Warwick Funnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounting is frequently portrayed as a value free mechanism for allocating resources and ensuring they are employed in the most efficient manner. Contrary to this popular opinion, the research presented in Accounting at War demonstrates that accounting for military forces is primarily a political practice. Throughout history, military force has been so pervasive that no community of any degree of complexity has succeeded in. Through to the present day, for all nation states, accounting for the military and its operations has primarily served broader political purposes. From the Crimean War to the War on Terror, accounting has been used to assert civilian control over the military, instill rational business practices on war, and create the visibilities and invisibilities necessary to legitimize the use of force. Accounting at War emphasizes the significant power that financial and accounting controls gave to political elites and the impact of these controls on military performance. Accounting at War examines the effects of these controls in wars such as the Crimean, South African and Vietnam wars. Accounting at War also emphasizes how accounting has provided the means to rationalize and normalize violence, which has often contributed to the acceleration and expansion of war. Aimed at researchers and academics in the fields of accounting, accounting history, political management and sociology, Accounting at War represents a unique and critical perspective to this cutting-edge research field.
Download or read book Johnson McNamara and the Birth of SALT and the ABM Treaty 1963 1969 written by John M. Clearwater and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to examine the birth of bilateral strategic arms control between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Johnson Administration, from 1964 to 1969. It is about the time and the place of the birth of bilateral strategic arms control as it came about in the United States through the efforts of President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in the 1960s. This is the time of the birth of what quickly came to be known as SALT, or the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. This inquiry firstly considers whether the move towards bilateral strategic arms control was institutional or personal. It then looks for the motivating factors: both theoretical and substantive. As few things have only a single cause, it is likely that we shall find that the birth of strategic arms control was influenced by both nuclear weapons employment theory, and by a substantive incident or reality such as the ever increasing number and sophistication of nuclear weaponry. Lastly, we must look for an immediate precipitating factor, such as the move towards deployment of a potentially destabilizing ABM system by both the USA and USSR. Therefore, it must be borne in mind when examining the people and their theories, the institutions, the prevailing realities, and major precipitating factors, that they all come together to form the basis for the birth of bilateral strategic arms control. This book shall therefore strive to reveal the extent of personal input; the objective basis for that personal commitment; and examine the major precipitating factors, namely Anti-Ballistic Missiles (ABM), and to a lesser extent, Multiple Independently Targeted Re-Entry Vehicles (MIRV). Although barely discussed at the time, the MIRV would turn out to be a major arms control problem: far greater than the hotly contested ABM system which spurred so many debates. The unique aspect of this research is that other writers have concentrated almost totally on the people and events surrounding the Nixon Administration when studying SALT. While it is true that the talks did not get underway during the Johnson years, this study will show that all of the theoretical and preparatory work was done in the Johnson years, and conclude by showing that many of the same people appear in the Nixon years. Without the input of McNamara and his team, there would have been no movement on strategic arms control until possibly the 1970s. To add to the historical value of the work, I have included in the annexes complete texts of the initial arms control proposal which the US team was to present to the Soviet Union in the autumn of 1968. In addition, presented here for the very first time are the full instructions to the negotiating team and the initial presentation paper to be read by the team leader on the opening day of the talks. When this final material is tied in with the history of the push for the talks, the story is indeed exciting and meaningful. For the first time we are presented with the almost complete picture of the formulation of an arms control proposal. There is of course a fluke of history which brought this all to light. As the Johnson material was never directly used in the formal SALT talks, it was not subject to the same stringent security classifications as those of Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton materials. Therefore the documents started to be declassified in the late 1980s, with the bulk coming to light in 1991 through 1994. Here then is the story of the origins of strategic arms control.
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Armed Services written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of the Preparedness Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings on Military Posture and H R 3818 and H R 8687 to Authorize Appropriations During the Fiscal Year 1972 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Stalemate written by Michael Krepon and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-06-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Power and National Security written by J. I. Coffey and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this closely reasoned and lucid analysis, an important thinker on American strategy surveys weapons technology and its military and political implications for the 1970s. J. I. Coffey refutes the argument that American national security requires "superior" strategic offensive forces or extensive air and missile defenses. In so doing he assesses in simple terms the various factors involved in this complex and difficult subject. While many books on strategy deal only with a single area or a particular weapons system, this work synthesizes technical and non-technical considerations across the whole range of national security issues affected by strategic power-war-fighting, deterrence, Communist behavior, alliance relationships, nuclear proliferation, and arms control. Its orderly and authoritative marshaling of tabulated data, its citations from Department of Defense documents and congressional hearings, and its classifications of the alternative options which strategy makers can now pursue, are all invaluable to both the student of national security and the professional strategist.
Download or read book Documents on Disarmament written by United States. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Documents on Disarmament written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book US Intelligence and the Soviet Strategic Threat written by Lawrence Freedman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1977-06-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines in detail the organization of the U.S. intelligence community, its attempts to monitor and predict the development of Soviet forces from the early days of the cold war, and how these attempts affected American policy and weapons production.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970 Hearings Before 91 1 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
