Arming the Future: A Defense Industry for the 21st Century

A consolidated defence industry presents challenges for American military policy, competitiveness and international peace and security. How can the costs of weapon development be kept in check? With... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876092466
• ISBN13: 9780876092460
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An excellent and even-handed analysis

THis edited book covers all the major issues of American defense planning, procurement, the military-industrial complex and so on. The range of views represented here covers the gamut pretty well, from the anti-proliferation side (an excellent, albeit brief chapter by Lora Lumpe) to those who just want the arms industry to run more efficiently, this is a great resource. If you want to know how, who, when or why regarding the defense industry in the 1990s, this is essential reading and a really handy reference. Flamm's chapter alone makes it worth getting, I thought, and was much more readable than his work in Susman and O'Keefe. There are other books on this subject, but most have more bias than this, and the authors collected here are so knowledgeable that their work is likely to be included in any other edited book. If nothing else, this is more recent than most of those, which makes it valuable