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Filling a void in the literature, this book is beneficial reading for experts and non-experts alike -- Zbigniew Brezezinski, former National Security Advisor
This book of original scholarship exposes the ideological origins of socialist efforts at central planning and confirms that there is no alternative to the market for a modern economy -- Oleg Bogomolov, former director, Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System, USSR Academy of Sciences
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The U. S. Department of Defense is actually one of the world's largest planned economies. Like all planned economies, it has gross inefficiencies. This book is a penetrating analysis of the military-industrial-Congressional complex, and offers new insights into how meaningful reform can be achieved.
Filling a void in the literature, this book is beneficial reading for experts and non-experts alike -- Zbigniew Brezezinski, former National Security Advisor
This book of original scholarship exposes the ideological origins of socialist efforts at central planning and confirms that there is no alternative to the market for a modern economy -- Oleg Bogomolov, former director, Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System, USSR Academy of Sciences
Unlike any other book, this book provides the intellectual bridge between our past and future -- Yuri B. Kochevrin, member, Economic Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
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The U. S. Department of Defense is actually one of the world's largest planned economies. Like all planned economies, it has gross inefficiencies. This book is a penetrating analysis of the military-industrial-Congressional complex, and offers new insights into how meaningful reform can be achieved.
Prior to World War II, the United States maintained insignificant military forces and weapons manufacturing industries during peace. But the weapons industry that has grown since the end of World War II inhabits an ill-defined zone between genuine private enterprise and complete government planning. Does this unprecedented military-industrial-congressional complex efficiently serve the public's interest in national security?
In this book, eleven contributing scholars analyze such questions as whether overall military spending is too high or too low, why the military procurement system remains impervious to reform, and how special interests exploit the system.
This book does not leave readers with simple solutions; depoliticizing defense spending and eliminating military procurement mismanagement will not be easy. But this book does lay the foundation of understanding to help necessary reforms take place.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower knew some history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
base closure account, parochial imperative, ribbon defense commissions, contractor misconduct, proposed base closures, nongovernment sales, defense procurement regulation, major base closures, arms supply policy, weapons acquisition policy, weapons acquisition process, prime military contracts, industry public goods, obsolete military bases, perceived marginal cost, total package procurement, restraint perspective, arms transfer policy, military base closures, prime contract awards, closure proposals, distributive theory, reelection constituency, military waste, nonrival consumption Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Department of Defense, World War, Congressional Record, New Deal, Defense Department, Washington Post, Government Printing Office, Third World, General Dynamics, President Reagan, Rhode Island, Defense Secretary, House of Representatives, White House, Wall Street Journal, Fort Dix, Senate Committee, American Bar Association, Arming America, Harvard University Press, New Jersey, Public Law, Ist Sess New!
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Dwight D. Eisenhower knew some history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
base closure account, parochial imperative, ribbon defense commissions, contractor misconduct, proposed base closures, nongovernment sales, defense procurement regulation, major base closures, arms supply policy, weapons acquisition policy, weapons acquisition process, prime military contracts, industry public goods, obsolete military bases, perceived marginal cost, total package procurement, restraint perspective, arms transfer policy, military base closures, prime contract awards, closure proposals, distributive theory, reelection constituency, military waste, nonrival consumption Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Department of Defense, World War, Congressional Record, New Deal, Defense Department, Washington Post, Government Printing Office, Third World, General Dynamics, President Reagan, Rhode Island, Defense Secretary, House of Representatives, White House, Wall Street Journal, Fort Dix, Senate Committee, American Bar Association, Arming America, Harvard University Press, New Jersey, Public Law, Ist Sess New!
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- The Defense Industry by Jacques S. Gansler on 6 pages
- The Defense Management Challenge: Weapons Acquisition by J. Ronald Fox on 6 pages
- Affording Defense by Jacques Gansler on 5 pages
- Formation of Government Contracts by Ralph C. Nash Jr. on page 127, page 128, and page 129
- The Sinews of War: Essays on the Economic History of World War II by Geofrey T. Mills in Front Matter, page 93, and page 126
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- Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society by Robert Higgs on 5 pages
- Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy by James M. Lindsay in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Weapons Under Fire (Garland Reference Library of Social Science , No 1047) by Lauren Holland on page 172, and Back Matter
- Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy by Robert Higgs in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Public Budgeting Systems by Robert D. Lee on page 45
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