New Challenges for Defense Planning: Rethinking How Much is Enough [Paperback]

Paul Davis (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 23, 1994

This book contains 23 papers describing RAND studies of defense planning issues for the post-Cold War era.

Editorial Reviews

Review

There is much in this collection of essays to inform and to provoke discussion.
Journal of Strategic Studies


An important book.
Foreign Affairs

From the Publisher

This book contains 23 papers describing RAND studies of defense planning issues for the post-Cold War era. The rethinking of defense planning will go on for some years, but many of the ideas and conclusions presented here will continue to be quite germane. Some of the work discussed has already been influential, either in helping policymakers to shape the terms of debate or in providing information that contributed to choices made under uncertainty. While I have made no attempt to develop a monolithic "RAND view" on the many challenges defense planners face, readers will see in this collection themes and methodologies characteristic of RAND's recent defense-planning work. I hope these will be of interest to a broad class of individuals in government, military service, universities, and industry. My intention has been to seek papers that are problem-focused and interesting, that describe enough of the research and analytic reasoning to convey a sense of how the studies were conducted, and that should be useful for some years, despite also being topical. Most of the research underlying the papers in this book was accomplished in RAND's three national-security federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs): Project AIR FORCE, the Arroyo Center, and the National Defense Research Institute (NDRI), which are sponsored by the Air Force, the Army, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff, respectively. The book itself was organized in RAND's Defense and Technology Planning Department and was made possible with substantial corporate funds and through the auspices of the RAND Graduate School of Policy Studies. RAND's national-security divisions also contributed research-support funds to cover some of the administrative expenses.Paul K. DavisCorporate Research ManagerDefense and Technology Planning

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Product Details

• Paperback: 778 pages
• Publisher: Rand Publishing; 1 edition (June 23, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0833015273
• ISBN-13: 978-0833015273
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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