Impact of Enhanced Mobilization Potential on Civil Preparedness Planning.

Abstract

This report explores the possibility of conflicting U.S. resource and management demands resulting from a major industrial mobilization effort coupled with a major civil defense augmentation effort during a period of extreme tension between the superpowers. The impact is assessed for the period preceding, during, and in the aftermath of a general war. This uncommon scenario is predicated on an estimate of relative U.S. and Soviet mobilization potentials that suggests that such a competitive pre-war mobilization might be in the best Soviet interests. This estimate is developed in a separate appendix entitled 'Estimating U.S. and Soviet Latent Prewar Industrial Mobilization Potentials.' (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA080623

Entities

People

  • Leonard Sullivan Jr.
  • W. Scott Payne

Organizations

  • System Planning Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Budgets
  • Civil Defense
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Defense Industry
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Disasters
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Turbines
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design