Section 1202 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, Public Law 106-65, provides that the Secretary of Defense shall submit a report “on the current and future military strategy of the People’s Republic of China. The report shall address the current and probable future course of military-technological development on the People’s Liberation Army and the tenets and probabl...

Section 1202 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, Public Law 106-65, provides that the Secretary of Defense shall submit a report “on the current and future military strategy of the People’s Republic of China. The report shall address the current and probable future course of military-technological development on the People’s Liberation Army and the tenets and probabl...

Section 1202 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, Public Law 106-65, provides that the Secretary of Defense shall submit a report “on the current and future military strategy of the People’s Republic of China. The report shall address the current and probable future course of military-technological development on the People’s Liberation Army and the tenets and probabl...

We estimate the influence of defense spending and military labor use on economic growth in African and Latin American countries. Our model integrates disparate implications from the defense economics literature into a Barro-style model of economic growth that controls for political and economic institutional variation across countries. Our panel data analysis of 44 countries in Africa and Latin...

Wage Growth in the Civilian Careers of Military Retirees iii PREFACE More than 20,000 individuals retire each year from the U.S. military who are eligible to receive a guaranteed annuity amounting to half or more of their basic military pay. Separating from the military at an average age of 43, the overwhelming majority of these retirees enter second careers in the civilian sector. This book se...

Since the Cold War, the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty has been the lynchpin of the regional security architecture. The alliance served as the key mechanism to ensure U.S. military presence and commitment to the Asia-Pacific. In addition to the modernization of Japan Self Defense Force (JSDF) military capabilities, U.S. military presence manifested through bases in Japan, and Japan-U.S. military co...

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Defense Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia General Hospital Medigroup, Belgrade, Serbia Department of Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia ENT Hospital, Dr. Zutic, Belgrade, Serbia Institute for Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Defense Milita...

This paper develops a quantitative model of trade, military conflicts, and defense spending. Trade liberalization between two countries reduces probability of an armed conflict between them, causing both to cut defense spending. This in turn causes a domino effect on defense spending by other countries. As a result, both countries and the rest of the world are better off. We estimate the model ...