This study applies continuous wavelet analysis to examine defense-education and defense-healthcare relations in the US Britain. It discovers four empirical patterns that have not been shown existing literature. First, defense-welfare tradeoff rarely occurs at cycles less than 6 years hence is a short-run phenomenon. Second, very noticeable bilateral tradeoffs between education defense can be de...

Access to electric power is critical to societal welfare. In this paper, we analyze the interaction between a defender and a terrorist who threatens the operation of an electric power system. The defender wants to find a strategic defense to minimize the consequences of an attack. Both parties have limited budgets and behave in their own self-interest. The problem is formulated as a multi-level...

Military market places display obvious inefficiencies under most arrangements, but the Soviet defense market was unusual for its degree of monopoly, exclusive relationships, intensely scrutinized (in its formative years) by a harsh dictator. This provided the setting for quality versus quantity in the delivery of weapons to the government. The paper discusses the power of the industrial contrac...

The post-Cold War era is placing the defense industry at a crossroads. If, on one hand, it under great pressure to guarantee warlike efforts around world, with tight budgets and uncertain lead-times, other seen as central instrument for national sovereignty foreign policy. purpose of this research report state-of-the-art existing literature explore most relevant areas in order provide conceptua...