The main message and added value of this analysis lies in the development of a possible structure of defense planning, plus process logics, and in providing inherent functional principles of a “system-generating system” in the field of defense planning in a broader sense. This includes the identification of the interrelations of the researched basic principles. The present research starts with ...

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 ...

President Clinton took office in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the international security environment. Reacting to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, the administration’s new civilian leaders at the Pentagon undertook a “Bottom-Up Review” of U.S. military requirements to set the guidelines for the administration’s $1.3trillion, five-year defense program. Despite its p...

<span lang="EN-US">Non-military defense is a to deal with non-military threats that can endanger or have implications for national defense. Non-military ideological, political, economic, socio-cultural, technological, public safety, and legislation dimensions. In the general policy of years 2020-2024, it stated in implementing defense, directed dimensions types by determining ministry/ins...

The both Atlantic side relations from the ancient time had been faced with too much challenge but the continuing of this relation is due to the common political and economical interests. The upper Atlantic and the two organizations (NATO, EU) still exist to gain the essential goals and the political and security connection which are boosting with the economical integration at the same time. But...

Business ethicists should examine not only business practices but whether a particular type of business is even prima facie ethical. To illustrate how this might be done I here examine the contemporary U.S. defense industry. In the past the U.S. military has engaged in missions that arguably satisfied the just war self-defense rationale, thereby implying that its suppliers of equipment and serv...

Metropolitan city of Rasht as the largest nucleus of population density in Gilan province place most of the manpower, investment, economic and infrastructure projects. The same subject make necessary to study the main arteries and land usage of Rasht city of in terms of passive defense. Passive defense as a set of preventive measures cause to increases deterrence, reducing vulnerability, sust...

NATO BATTLEFIELD STRATEGY FOR THE CONVENTIONAL DEFENSE OF CENTRAL EUROPE Patrick Joseph Geary Master of Arts in Political Science University of Richmond 1987 Dr. Arthur B. Gunlicks Thesis Director Although we live in a time in which strategies using nuclear weapons dominate the attention of most defense analysts, there are reasons why more attention should be paid to conventional defense strate...

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During the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), Croatian people in BH had 19,600 (2.6%) killed and 135,000 (17.6%) displaced persons, and 222,500 (28.9%) refugees. They lost around two thirds of both physicians and other health personnel, and were left with 8. 5% of prewar patient beds. Fortunately, the organized defence against Serbs was initiated in time and Croats defended the terri...