Economics of Defense - The Soviet Military Budget.

Abstract

The purpose of this report was to evaluate the dependency of the Soviet military budget on the relative health of the general Soviet economy. The secrecy with which the Soviet Union conducts its business (particularly on defense matters) presents a unique problem for Western analysts in analyzing Soviet actions. Although the United States' intelligence community has devised several techniques for accomplishing cost analysis, no figure is guaranteed to be accurate - perhaps only an approximation. The world has viewed the poor performance of the Soviet economy since the 1970's defense spending apparently the same time that the Soviet health of the Soviet economy a factor in determining the size of their defense budget or are they totally separate entities?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA179922

Entities

People

  • Jack L. Bailey Jr

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Cost Analysis
  • Economic Systems
  • Economics
  • Governments
  • Investments
  • Market Economy
  • Military Budgets
  • Money
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Strategic Security Studies