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Arming the Future: A Defense Industry for the 21st Century | 
| Creators: Ann R. Markusen, Sean S. Costigan
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 442
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 0876092466
Dewey Decimal Number: 327
EAN: 9780876092460
ASIN: 0876092466
Publication Date: October 1999
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Book Description
As military procurement spending fell by more than 50 percent in the 1990s, mergers and Pentagon policies altered the defense industry in unexpected ways. More than 40 firms were joined to form the big four—Lockheed Martin, Boeing McDonnell Douglas, Raytheon Hughes, and Northrop Grumman—and a new round of transnational mergers may be on the horizon. New policies to encourage dual-use development, civil/military integration, defense conversion, and arms exports were successful in some ways, failures in others. The consolidated industry presents new challenges for American military policy, competitiveness, and international peace and security: How can the costs of weapon development be kept in check? With fewer competitors, how can innovation be assured? Is a more internationally oriented industry compatible with continued U.S. dominance in leading edge weaponry? Can proliferation of sophisticated conventional weapons be avoided? This book documents the defense industrial changes of the post-cold war decade—why they happened and what they portend. It concludes by offering three different visions of the future: a fortress U.S./fortress Europe standoff; a go-at-it-alone American security strategy supported by a transnational defense industry; and a cooperative security/conflict resolution oriented alliance, which would slow arms innovation and restrain the spread of conventional arms.
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An excellent and even-handed analysis May 17, 2001
Defenestrator (Tokyo)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
THis edited book covers all the major issues of American defense planning, procurement, the military-industrial complex and so on. The range of views represented here covers the gamut pretty well, from the anti-proliferation side (an excellent, albeit brief chapter by Lora Lumpe) to those who just want the arms industry to run more efficiently, this is a great resource. If you want to know how, who, when or why regarding the defense industry in the 1990s, this is essential reading and a really handy reference. Flamm's chapter alone makes it worth getting, I thought, and was much more readable than his work in Susman and O'Keefe. There are other books on this subject, but most have more bias than this, and the authors collected here are so knowledgeable that their work is likely to be included in any other edited book. If nothing else, this is more recent than most of those, which makes it valuable
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