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New Challenges, New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking
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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Pages: 412
ISBN/EAN: 0-8330-3289-5
Contents
All Prefatory Materials PDF
Introduction PDF
Introduction to Part I: New Challenges for Defense PDF
Chapter One:
Decisionmaking for Defense PDF
David S.C. Chu and Nurith Berstein
Chapter Two:
Responding to Asymmetric Threats PDF
Bruce W. Bennett
Chapter Three:
What Information Architecture for Defense? PDF
Martin C. Libicki
Introduction to Part II: Coping with Uncertainty PDF
Chapter Four:
Incorporating Information Technology in Defense Planning PDF
Martin C. Libicki
Chapter Five:
Uncertainty-Sensitive Planning PDF
Paul K. Davis
Chapter Six:
Planning the Future Military Workforce PDF
Harry J. Thie
Chapter Seven:
The Soldier of the 21st Century PDF
James R. Hosek
Chapter Eight:
Adapting Best Commercial Practices to Defense PDF
Frank Camm
Introduction to Part III: New Tools for Defense Decisionmaking PDF
Chapter Nine:
Exploratory Analysis and Implications for Modeling PDF
Paul K. Davis
Chapter Ten:
Using Exploratory Modeling PDF
Daniel B. Fox
Chapter Eleven:
Assessing Military Information Systems PDF
Stuart H. Starr
Chapter Twelve:
The "Day After" Methodology and National Security Analysis PDF
David Mussington
Chapter Thirteen:
Using Electronic Meeting Systems to Aid Defense Decisions PDF
Stuart E. Johnson
Afterword PDF
Supplementary Materials PDF
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