Sitting on Bayonets
Author : Abraham Samuel Becker
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Budget
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Author : Abraham Samuel Becker
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Budget
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Author : Abraham Samuel Becker
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Military readiness
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Not too many years ago, the burden of Soviet defense seemed a secondary issue. The conventional estimates of the size of the burden were low and the Soviet economy was growing rapidly. Now, the era of rapid growth seems to have come to an end and the Western estimates of the burden are much higher. The conjunction generates intense interest in the relation between the two developments. Especially important is the role of the defense burden in shaping future growth prospects. How serious a drag on the economy does the Soviet military budget represent? Is cutting defense spending the solution to current Soviet economic problems? Will the military budget nevertheless continue to grow? These questions are the focus of the present paper. The first section considers the various estimates of the size of the Soviet defense burden. It is followed by a discussion of the connections between defense burden and resource allocation choices. A final section speculates on the implications for future defense spending.
Author : Abraham Samuel Becker
Publisher :
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Military readiness
ISBN : 9780833003560
Two questions are posed: How can we explain the monotonic growth of the Soviet military budget over two decades when overall economic growth was slowing down? Can changes in this pattern be expected? Section II defines and analyzes the concept of the Soviet defense burden, then surveys empirical measures of the burden. Section III is skeptical about the extent to which the Soviet buildup is a response to external threats to security. The persistent buildup is seen instead to reflect the leadership's perception of national priorities and to be supported by a decisionmaking apparatus that maintains them. In the near future, external challenges (particularly the U.S. buildup) and opportunities will create pressures to maintain the pace of military spending, but worsening economic prospects will make it increasingly burdensome. Neither Brezhnev nor his successors are likely to have new options for dealing with this dilemma, and considerations that have induced the Politburo to try to 'middle through' will probably continue to dominate. U.S. policy has a significant capacity to influence Soviet policy in this direction.
Author : Noel E. Firth
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890968055
During the Cold War, when the United States' intelligence efforts were focused on the Soviet Union, one of the primary tasks of the Central Intelligence Agency was to estimate Soviet defense spending. In Soviet Defense Spending: A History of CIA Estimates, 1950-1990, Noel E. Firth and James H. Noren, who spent much of their long CIA careers estimating and studying Soviet defense spending, provide a closer look at those estimates and consider how and why they were made. In the process, the authors chronicle the development of a significant intelligence analytic capability. Firth and Noren also explain what the CIA has learned since the collapse of the Soviet Union about the USSR's actual military spending during the Cold War.
Author : Denise G. Dunbar
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Henry S. Rowen
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Page : 400 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Perestroĭka
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Author : John Tedstrom
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Defense industries
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Author : Carl G. Jacobsen
Publisher : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198291183
Realistic appraisal of Soviet defence efforts is crucial to strategic planning and foreign policy analysis. Since Soviet defence expenditure figures are incomplete, however, our knowledge in this area is extremely limited. This study reviews the state of current knowledge in this field, and presents a critical review of the nature and limitation of traditional approaches. The contributors analyse newly available sources of economic, scientific, and technical military information, and conclude with an in-depth consideration of the relevance and impact of historical and cultural influences on current Russian-Soviet military strategy. There emerges a fascinating account, which both extends our knowledge and understanding, and sheds light on what is perhaps the single most important 'unknown' in the study of international affairs and defence needs.
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Industrial mobilization
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Author : Dmitriĭ Mikheev
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 10,24 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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