Changing Concern for United States National Security.

Abstract

The intent of this thesis is to investigate possible measures of concern for U.S. national security. It is an exploratory attempt at categorizing, correlating, and explaining trends in Congressional, presidential, and public concern for national security between 1950 and 1977. Chapters II through IV discuss measures of Congressional concern based on defense appropriations; presidential concern based on the national security related remarks in the annual state of the union presentations and the defense budget requests; and public concern based on public opinion poll data. Chapter V discusses what the President has recommended be done and what forces and capabilities the Department of Defense has developed to counter the perceived threat to U.S. national security. The findings and conclusions of the individual chapters are then brought together in Chapter VI as a summarization and explanation of the trends and major changes in concern for U.S. national security since 1950. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA057418

Entities

People

  • Charles William Lawing

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Anti-Ballistic Missiles
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Civil Defense
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of Defense
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Bombs
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Southeast Asia
  • Strategic Weapons
  • Treaties

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Organizational Psychology.