Research Catalog

Title

Military planning today : calculus or charade? / Carl H. Builder.

Author

Builder, Carl H.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rand Corporation.
• United States. Air Force.

Description

vii, 23 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The military planning calculus introduced in the mid-1960s still provides the structure for defense planning today. Built into that calculus is the idea that we start with our national objectives and the threats to those objectives, and proceed logically through the design of military forces to the bottom line--the presentation of the bill to the American public. Now, post-Cold War, the American public is expressing preferences about the size of the insurance policy it wants for national security. Defense planning, instead of toting up the bill to meet declared objectives and threats, may instead have to offer alternative military capabilities (and risks) over a range of prices. Among other suggestions, the author recommends giving explicit consideration to the judgments that inform defense planning, such as the availability of resources and the likelihood of various threats, and allowing the services to compete for funding.

Subject

• Military planning > United States
• National security > United States
• Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures
• Military planning
• National security
• Militärische Planung
• United States > Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures
• United States
• USA

Note

• "MR-293-AF."
• "Prepared for the United States Air Force."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The calculus that came to stay -- The mischief it makes -- The risks we face -- The altar of jointness -- Judgments out of the closet -- A buyer's market.

ISBN

• 0833014250
• 9780833014252

LCCN

93028129

OCLC

• ocm28548460
• 28548460
• SCSB-1996707

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library