Taiwan's National Security Defense Policy and Weapons Procurement Process (Review of the Scientific Literature as It Pertains to Gulf War Illnesses) (Paperback)

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This report examines Taiwan's national security decisionmaking structure and process and the primary factors guiding its defense strategy, force structure, and military procurement decisions. It attempts to explain the motives and interests determining Taiwan's national security policy and defense plans and its decisions to acquire major weapons and related support systems from foreign sources, including the United States. The author has determined that Taiwan's national security policy process is poorly coordinated, both within the top levels of the senior leadership and between the civilian and military elite. As a result, Taiwan lacks a strategy that can integrate and guide its foreign and defense policies. He also concludes that Taiwan's defense policy and procurement decisionmaking process are significantly influenced by a variety of non- military criteria that complicate efforts to ascertain the motives

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• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: RAND Corporation (November 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0833027956
• ISBN-13: 978-0833027955
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