Reforming Defense
Author | : David C. Hendrickson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David C. Hendrickson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joel Wuthnow |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160937873 |
China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has embarked on its most wide-ranging and ambitious restructuring since 1949, including major changes to most of its key organizations. The restructuring reflects the desire to strengthen PLA joint operation capabilities- on land, sea, in the air, and in the space and cyber domains. The reforms could result in a more adept joint warfighting force, though the PLA will continue to face a number of key hurdles to effective joint operations, Several potential actions would indicate that the PLA is overcoming obstacles to a stronger joint operations capability. The reforms are also intended to increase Chairman Xi Jinping's control over the PLA and to reinvigorate Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organs within the military. Xi Jinping's ability to push through reforms indicates that he has more authority over the PLA than his recent predecessors. The restructuring could create new opportunities for U.S.-China military contacts.
Author | : David C. Hendrickson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780608066998 |
Author | : Aurel Croissant |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2017-03-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319531891 |
This book addresses the challenge of reforming defense and military policy-making in newly democratized nations. By tracing the development of civil-military relations in various new democracies from a comparative perspective, it links two bodies of scholarship that thus far have remained largely separate: the study of emerging (or failed) civilian control over armed forces on the one hand; and work on the roots and causes of military effectiveness to guarantee the protection and security of citizens on the other. The empirical and theoretical findings presented here will appeal to scholars of civil-military relations, democratization and security issues, as well as to defense policy-makers.
Author | : Dave Oliver |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2022-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1647122775 |
A roadmap for US military innovation based on the Navy’s history of success through civilian-military collaborations The US military must continually adapt to evolving technologies, shifting adversaries, and a changing social environment for its personnel. In American Defense Reform, Dave Oliver and Anand Toprani use US naval history as a guide for leading successful change in the Pentagon. American Defense Reform provides a historical analysis of the Navy during four key periods of disruptive transformation: the 1940s Revolt of the Admirals, the McNamara Revolution in systems analysis, the fallout from the Vietnam War, and the end of the Cold War. The authors draw insights from historical documents, previously unpublished interviews from four-star admirals, and Oliver’s own experiences as a senior naval officer and defense industry executive. They show that Congress alone cannot effectively create change and reveal barriers to applying the experience of the private sector to the public sector Ultimately, Oliver and Toprani show that change can only come from a collaborative effort between civilians, the military, and industry, each making vital contributions. American Defense Reform provides insights and practical recommendations essential to reforming national defense to meet future demands.
Author | : Asa A. Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Based on the 20th West Point Senior Conference, 1982, and edited by officers serving in the U.S. Army, this volume presents opposing views on strategy, doctrine, force structure, modernization of weapons and weapons acquisition, and the organization of defense policy making. These cover major reform issues including an evaluation of manuever versus attrition warfare, reorganization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and officer education. The editors offer assessments of the proposals and alternatives set forth by individual authors. ISBN 0-8018-3205-5 : $12.95.
Author | : Peter Levine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781503610460 |
Pentagon spending has been the target of decades of criticism and reform efforts. Billions of dollars are spent on weapons programs that are later abandoned. State-of-the-art data centers are underutilized and overstaffed. New business systems are built at great expense but fail to meet the needs of their users. Every Secretary of Defense for the last five Administrations has made it a priority to address perceived bloat and inefficiency by making management reform a major priority. The congressional defense committees have been just as active, enacting hundreds of legislative provisions. Yet few of these initiatives produce significant results, and the Pentagon appears to go on, as wasteful as ever. In this book, Peter Levine addresses why, despite a long history of attempted reform, the Pentagon continues to struggle to reduce waste and inefficiency. The heart of Defense Management Reform is three case studies covering civilian personnel, acquisitions, and financial management. Narrated with the insight of an insider, the result is a clear understanding of what went wrong in the past and a set of concrete guidelines to plot a better future.
Author | : John Ronald Fox |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160866975 |
Center of Military History Publication 51-3-1. By J. Ronald Fox, et al. Discusses reform initiatives from 1960 to the present and concludes with prescriptions for future changes to the acquisition culture of the services, DoD, and industry.
Author | : Gurmeet Kanwal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Defense industries |
ISBN | : 9789386618344 |
Keeping in mind the necessity as well as the urgency of reform, this volume brings together practitioners as well as researchers on defence issues, on the key issue of defence reforms. The aim is not just to interrogate the status of reforms in current times but to also place the issue before a wider readership.
Author | : Barry W. Holman |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 1999-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780788186127 |
The Dept. of Defense (DoD) has been working to reduce its infrastructure and support costs. In Nov. 1997, the Sec. of Defense issued his Defense Reform Initiative (DRI) Report outlining a plan for reforming DoD's business affairs. To implement the report's initiatives, the Sec. established a Defense Management Council and chartered it with responsibility for overseeing the effort and serving as his internal board of directors for management. This report discusses (1) actions taken through the DRI management structure to facilitate achieving the program's objectives, and (2) progress made in implementing individual reform initiatives.