The Challenges of Common Security: Choices for U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation in the 1980s,
Abstract
The paper emphasizes both the common security challenge faced by Japan and the United States and the nature of the defense program that seems required of a coalition of friendly or allied powers if the Soviet military threat is to be effectively neutralized. The report also gives some sense of the positive progress in economic development and high living standards that should be protected, and the technological and industrial resource base that is available. Yet it is evident that the civilian and consumer orientation of the market economy states, and the powerful roles of public opinion and open political processes in governmental decision making, impose significant constraints on military spending and defense preparedness.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA113443
Entities
People
- Richard H. Solomon
Organizations
- RAND Corporation