Defense spending: F-22 in a tailspin

1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 14-15
Author(s):  
John Isaacs
Keyword(s):  
Defense Spending

Economic Growth and Defence Spending: An Efficiency Analysis of Romania’s Conscription Suspension

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Alin Teodor Huseraș ◽  
Andrei Ciprian Spînu
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Analysis ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
External Funding ◽  
The Public ◽  
Defence Spending ◽  
Key Sectors ◽  
The Military ◽  
Theoretical Issues

AbstractNational defense is one of the key sectors responsible for maintaining national security, being considered at the same time an element of great importance and strict necessity of the public sector. The performance of defense functions and missions are closely linked to the military capabilities of this sector, which in turn depend on the budget for defense spending. This paper deals with some theoretical issues in the economic field of defense, regarding the size of defense spending in GDP and their social effects. It is also trying to carry out an analysis on the efficiency versus inefficiency in the use of defense resources, to finance the two types of recruitment systems, namely: by conscription or voluntary will. In order to be able to achieve the above, graphical analysis methods and calculation dermination method were used. The efficiency of spending public funds depends on both objective factors such as: distribution of a certain share of GDP to a certain area; attracting internal and external funding, as well as subjective factors, like: allocating resources to certain categories of expenses; allocating resources to certain defense programs; effective management of these resources by the competent structures. Therefore, for a program to be considered effective, it must meet the requirements of the collective needs of society, be rationally implemented and be sustainable.

Rethinking U.S. National Security after Covid19

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda J. Bilmes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
Federal Spending ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Military

AbstractThe United States has traditionally defined national security in the context of military threats and addressed them through military spending. This article considers whether the United States will rethink this mindset following the disruption of the Covid19 pandemic, during which a non-military actor has inflicted widespread harm. The author argues that the US will not redefine national security explicitly due to the importance of the military in the US economy and the bipartisan trend toward growing the military budget since 2001. However, the pandemic has opened the floodgates with respect to federal spending. This shift will enable the next administration to allocate greater resources to non-military threats such as climate change and emerging diseases, even as it continues to increase defense spending to address traditionally defined military threats such as hypersonics and cyberterrorism.

The Arms Race, Played by SDP

1982 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 8-9
Author(s):  
Elliott Frauenglass ◽  
Clyde D. McKee ◽  
Charles C. Naef
Keyword(s):  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
National Defense ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Media ◽  
Participatory Exercise ◽  
Defense Budgets

Interest in the arms race has been growing in recent years as shown by coverage in the media and in political campaigns. Many students coming to class are already preconditioned either for or against increased defense spending. This participatory exercise allows them to test their ideas, and it helps make their minds more receptive to new concepts being explored in the class, such as: Is detente in the best interests of the Unted States? Should a new SALT Treaty be negotiated? What is the best ratio of expenditures for domestic programs and national defense?SDB stands for Secret Defense Budgets. In the SDB exercise, or game as it is called, the class is divided into groups of two students sitting next to each other.

Effects of defense spending on the Texas economy: An example of concave programming

1984 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 573-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sten Thore ◽  
George Kozmetsky ◽  
Michelle Burtis
Keyword(s):  
Defense Spending ◽  
Concave Programming

The 2019 NATO Summit in London in the context of Poland’s military security

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Łukasz Jureńczyk
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Structural Realism ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Member States ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
Military Security ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Article 5

The paper provides reflections on NATO’s London Summit held on 3 and 4 December 2019 in the context of Poland’s military security. The paper is divided into an introduction, six sections, and a conclusion. The first section is devoted to issues of formation, functioning, and disintegration of alliances from the perspective of the theory of defensive structural realism and explains the methodological assumptions of the paper. The second section presents the atmosphere as prevailed before and during the Summit, which significantly impacted its process. The following sections are devoted to the main problems raised during the Summit from the perspective of Poland’s military security. The first involved the approval of Poland and the Baltic states’ defense plans together with a discussion on the danger of their blocking by the Turkish delegation. Another issue was the symbolic and practical confirmation of Article 5 of the Washington Treaty’s significance in the perspective of the approach to Russia’s threat. The next two problems concerned the level of Member States’ defense spending and the vision of strengthening the EU’s defense potential. The paper’s main thesis is that the decisions of the NATO Summit in London have had a positive impact on Poland’s military security. However, the climate and discussions that accompanied the Summit also brought a great deal of uncertainty and revealed a growing gap between allies concerning various issues.

International Partnership of Enterprises of the Defense-industrial complex of Ukraine: Financial and Economic Aspects of Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 297-303
Author(s):  
Natalia Gavrilova ◽  
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Larysa Petrenko ◽  
Natalia Pitel ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
International Partnership ◽  
Technological Modernization ◽  
Scientific Technical

The level of national security of the country directly depends on the needs of enterprises of the defense-industrial complex, their scientific, technical, financial and economic development. The financial security of defense enterprises and the financial security of the state as a whole is in a state of direct mutual influence. Thus, there is an urgent need to study the peculiarities of ensuring financial security at the enterprises of the defense industry and in the defense-industrial complex. The purpose of the work is to study the modern aspects of an international partnership of enterprises of the defense-industrial complex, the principles of their activities, and the financial aspects of development. The article considers the interpretations of scientists on the concepts of defense spending and financing of law enforcement agencies, considers the structure of the defense budget of Ukraine. The article considers the defense-industrial complex as an integral part of the entire military potential of the country and the industrial basis of the national security of the state. The article states that the enterprises of the defense-industrial complex produce high technologies, know-how, which can later be used in civilian sectors of the economy. International partnership of enterprises of the defense-industrial complex with NATO and the EU becomes a factor in the reform and development of the entire military-industrial complex of Ukraine. However, given the needs of the domestic defense-industrial complex, along with the processes of its structural restructuring, cooperation on technological modernization of the enterprises of the sector and the renewal of the manufactured armaments should deepen. It is also advisable to intensify cooperation in the field of space, both for military and civilian security-related purposes. A separate direction of cooperation should be the creation of a joint innovative infrastructure in the defense-industrial complex.

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