Democracy's arsenal creating a twenty-first-century defense industry

New geopolitical realities -- including terrorism, pandemics, rogue nuclear states, resource conflicts, insurgencies, mass migration, economic collapse, and cyber attacks -- have created a dramatically different national-security environment for America. Twentieth-century defense strategies, technol...

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Main Author: Gansler, Jacques S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press [2011]
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Table of Contents:
  • The challenge
  • The defense industry in perspective
  • National security in twenty-first century
  • Characteristics of defense industry in the early twenty-first century
  • The workforce: industry, government, and the university
  • The criticality of research and development
  • Competition in defense acquisitions
  • The defense-industry strategies of other nations
  • Transforming the U.S. national-security industry