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Title

New challenges, new tools for defense decisionmaking / edited by Stuart Johnson, Martin Libicki, Gregory F. Treverton.

Publication

Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Johnson, Stuart E., 1944-
• Libicki, Martin C.
• Treverton, Gregory F.
• Rand Corporation.

Description

xxiv, 390 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

It is still easy to underestimate how much the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 transformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. In place of predictability (if a sometimes terrifying predictability), the world is now very unpredictable. In place of a single overriding threat and benchmark by which all else could be measured, a number of possible threats have arisen, not all of them states. In place of force-on-force engagements, U.S. defense planners have to assume "asymmetric" threats ways not to defeat U.S. power but to render it irrelevant. This book frames the challenges for defense policy that the transformed world engenders, and it sketches new tools for dealing with those challenges from new techniques in modeling and gaming, to planning based on capabilities rather than threats, to personnel planning and making use of "best practices" from the private sector.

Subject

• National security > United States
• World politics > 21st century
• United States > Decision making
• United States > Defenses

Note

• "MR-1576."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

From Old Challenges to New -- New Challenges for Defense -- Decisionmaking for Defense / David S.C. Chu, Nurith Berstein -- Deciding What Decisions Must Be Made -- Deciding Who Makes the Decisions -- Deciding How to Allocate Resources -- Deciding What Investments to Make -- Alternative Approaches to Decisionmaking -- Alternative Decisionmaking Styles -- Looking to the Future -- Responding to Asymmetric Threats / Bruce W. Bennett -- From the Cold War to the Present -- Examples of Asymmetric Threats -- How Would Adversaries Shape Asymmetric Threats? -- The Importance of Surprise and Anonymity -- Challenge and Response Cycles -- The Challenge of Weapons of Mass Destruction -- A Framework for Responding to Asymmetric Threats -- Institutionalization Through Protection -- Institutionalization Through Threat Management -- Internationalization -- What Information Architecture for Defense? / Martin C. Libicki -- The Global Information Grid -- Need There Be Architecture? -- Architecture Follows Culture? -- DoD as an Institution in Its Own League -- Elements of Architecture -- Collection -- Access -- Presentation -- Networking -- Knowledge Maintenance and Management -- Security -- Interoperability -- Integration -- The Need to Think Now -- Coping with Uncertainty -- Incorporating Information Technology in Defense Planning / Martin C. Libicki -- Modest Propositions About the Future -- Real Revolutions on the Physical Battlefield -- Hitting What Can Be Seen -- From Contingency to Necessity.

ISBN

• 0833032925
• 0833032895 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2002190880

OCLC

50725086

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library