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A strategy-based framework for accommodating reductions in the defense budget /

This paper suggests an approach for how the Department of Defense (DoD) might execute deep reductions in the defense budget, deep enough that stated defense strategy could not be fully resourced. The cuts examined go beyond the $487 billion announced in January 2012 by Secretary of Defense Leon Pane...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: National Defense Research Institute (U.S.), JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Johnson, Stuart E., 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, Calif. : Rand Corporation, 2012.
Series:Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) ; OP-379.
Subjects:
United States. > Department of Defense > Appropriations and expenditures.
United States. > Department of Defense > Planning.
United States. > Department of Defense.
United States > Armed Forces > Finance.
Military planning > United States.
United States > Military policy.
National security > United States.
Ebooks > UML.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Treaties.
Armed Forces > Finance.
Expenditures, Public.
Military planning.
Military policy.
National security.
Planning.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Alternative directions for U.S. defense strategy
  • Assessing the advantages and risks of alternative strategic directions
  • Force reductions linked to alternative strategic directions
  • Appendix: Summary advantages and disadvantages of alternative strategic directions.