Foreign Military Sales: A Strategic Concept Supporting Peacetime Engagement and Preventive Defense.

Abstract

Foreign Military Sales (FMS) are not new in American foreign relations. Neither is the idea of preventive defense as an element of military strategy. What is new is the increased emphasis of preventive defense as an element of the nation's National Military Strategy and the increased role of FMS in support of that strategy since the end of the Cold War. This project will analyze these changes, provide background on FMS and its relation to other Security Assistance components, and review FMS in the context of ways, means, and ends. This project uses actual FMS cases, primarily of the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), to provide examples and illustrations throughout.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 09, 1996
Accession Number
ADA326321

Entities

People

  • R. K. Griswold

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cold War
  • Commerce
  • Department Of State
  • Education
  • Foreign Military Sales
  • Foreign Policy
  • Foreign Relations
  • Military Education
  • Military Strategy
  • Multiple Launch Rocket System
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Missile Defense Systems.