Military Expenditure, Force Potential, and Relative Military Power.

Abstract

Military expenditure summarizes the flow of resources in the defense sector during some period of time; military force potential is a measure of the military output that can be produced with all the assets of the defense establishment, many of which are acquired over an extended period of time. The analysis presents a measure of military output called force potential, which adjusts military expenditure to compensate for the durable character of many military assets. Soviet military expenditure information and hypothetical military capital stock series for the Soviet Union are used to compute the growth of military force potential for 1967-1972. Also proposed is an indicator of the relative military power position of the United States in the long-term competition with the Soviet Union. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA101878

Entities

People

  • Gregory G. Hildebrandt

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Budgets
  • Business Administration
  • Corporations
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economics
  • Governments
  • Inventory
  • Investments
  • Military Equipment
  • Military Organizations
  • Money
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Ussr

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Economics
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).