"Presented at two conferences on Civilian-military management of the U.S. Defense Department. The first was held at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University in November 1983; the second, at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, the University of Kentucky, in December 1983"--P. ix. "Published with the cooperation of the Ford Foundation." Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents:
Part II : Defense reform in the United States -- Congress and the defense budget : enhancing policy oversight / Robert J. Art. Part I : Defense organization at home and abroad -- Defense policymaking in the Soviet Union / Edward L. Warner III -- Civilian and military influence in managing the arms race in the U.S.S.R. / Stephen M. Meyer -- Central defense organization in the United Kingdom / Michael Hobkirk -- Defense organization in Germany : a twice told tale / Catherine McArdle Kelleher -- Military organizations and policymaking in Israel / Aharon Yariv -- The dynamics of Israeli national security decisionmaking / Amos Perlmutter -- Changes in Canada's organization for defense, 1963-1983 / W. Harriet Critchley -- The evolution of central U.S. defense management / Vincent Davis -- The wars within : the Joint Military Structure and its critics / William J. Lynn -- Part II : Defense reform in the United States -- Strategymaking in the Pentagon / Robert W. Komer -- Organization and strategy / Samuel P. Huntington -- The Office of the Secretray of Defense / James Schlesinger -- The JCS - views of participants / Chairman's special study group -- The U.S. military chain of command - present and future / William Y. Smith -- Comments on Smith's proposal / David C. Jones, Edward C. Meyer III, and Thor Hanson -- Rewriting the Key West accord / Morton H. Halperin and David Halperin -- Resource allocation in the Pentagon / Vincent Puritano -- A critique of the PPB system / Philip Odeen -- How to improve the acquisition of weapons / Jacques S. Gansler -- Congress and the defense budget : enhancing policy oversight / Robert J. Art.
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