Buying Trouble
National Security and Reliance on Foreign Industry
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University Press of America
Published:22nd Jul '93
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Recent economic trends have created strong incentives for foreign industry to serve as reliable suppliers of military-related products during crises. The formation of free trade zones and economic blocs also make anti-American trade embargoes virtually impossible to administer. In this book, the author advocates the positive effects of military research on science and explains how the defense acquisition process could be more efficient. He seeks to address whether the national security is jeopardized when the Pentagon and American defense industries rely upon imports of defense-related products and technologies. Contents: Defense Industries in the 1980s; Objectives and Definitions; Gulf War Lessons; Technological Superiority; Sustainability, Sea Lift and Air Lift; Other Sustainability Programs; Pacific Rim Imports; Investments, Trading Blocs, Other Factors; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
This is an excellent economic analysis of the strategic risk involved in offshore production of military products. It should be of great interest to defense planners concerned with the costs of maintaining the defense industrial base during force reductions. * National War College Review *
Miskel has produced a must-read masterpiece...;it stands head and shoulders above recent studies by the General Accounting Office, the Office of Technology Assessment, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, among others. * Orbis *
Miskel has produced a must-read masterpiece...;it stands head and shoulders above recent studies by the General Accounting Office, the Office of Technology Assessment, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, among others. * Orbis *
This is an excellent economic analysis of the strategic risk involved in offshore production of military products. It should be of great interest to defense planners concerned with the costs of maintaining the defense industrial base during force reductions. * National War College Review *
ISBN: 9780819190130
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
Weight: 454g
204 pages