National Defense Stockpile Modernization or Suicide?

Abstract

The National Defense Stockpile, composed of 91 strategic materials valued at approximately $8.9 billion, contains less than half of the total three-year supply directed by Congress in the 1979 Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Revision Act. The Department of Defense is currently in the process of effectively reducing the size of the stockpile to approximately $444 million. This massive reduction is based upon the assumption that the United States will have three to five years warning of any future national emergency and will be able to replenish any needed minerals. While stockpile contents should be updated to keep pace with technology, this massive reduction is potentially a form of suicide if these critical minerals are not available in a time of national emergency.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA280652

Entities

People

  • Robert H. Byzewski

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Asbestos
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Graphitic Materials
  • Group 5 Elements
  • Logistics
  • Materials
  • Military Applications
  • Minerals
  • National Security
  • Niobium
  • Phyllosilicates
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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  • Strategic Security Studies