New challenges, new tools for defense decisionmaking

The Resource New challenges, new tools for defense decisionmaking
Label
New challenges, new tools for defense decisionmaking
Statement of responsibility
[edited by] Stuart E. Johnson, Martin C. Libicki, Gregory F. Treverton
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
It is still easy to underestimate how much the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War?and then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 -- transformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. In place of predictability (if a sometimes terrifying predictability), the world is now very unpredictable. In place of a single overriding threat and benchmark by which all else could be measured, a number of possible threats have arisen, not all of them states. In place of force-on-force engagements, U.S. defense planners have to assume "asymmetric" threats -- ways not to defeat U.S. power but to render it irrelevant. This book frames the challenges for defense policy that the transformed world engenders, and it sketches new tools for dealing with those challenges -- from new techniques in modeling and gaming, to planning based on capabilities rather than threats, to personnel planning and making use of "best practices" from the private sector
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Action
digitized
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
355/.033573
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
UA23
LC item number
.N374 2003eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
MR/Rand Corporation
Series volume
MR-1576-RC
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