Defense Priorities: The Urgent Issue.

Abstract

The Reagan Administration's defense budget has been criticized by some as the Carter defense budget writ large. Since money for defense is not unlimited, the administration is called upon to consider carefully nonoperational political, economic, and social linkages to military policy; the decentralization of the international environment which limits American abilities to control its own destiny; and a redefinition of US perceptions, strategies, and force mixes. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 10, 1981
Accession Number
ADA108593

Entities

People

  • John M. Weinstein

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Arms Control
  • Army
  • Budgets
  • Deterrence
  • Doctrine
  • Force Structure
  • Foreign Policy
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Budgets
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Systems Analysis and Design