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001 2014043074
003 DLC
005 20150617080943.0
008 141103s2015 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014043074
020 $axx, 328 s. (hardback)
020 $a9781107477353 (pb)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aU43.U4$bR48 2015
082 00 $a355.020973$223
084 $aPOL023000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aRasmussen, Mikkel Vedby,$d1973-
245 14 $aThe military's business :$bdesigning military power for the future /$cMikkel Vedby Rasmussen.
264 1 $aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c2015.
300 $aix, 215 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"If the military were a business would you buy shares? Over recent years, Western armed forces, particularly the US, have been costing more yet achieving less. At the same time, austerity measures are reducing defence budgets. This book uses defence data to examine the workings of modern Western militaries and explore what kind of strategies can overcome this gap between input and output. Instead of focusing on military strategy, Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen seeks to draw on the ideas of business strategy to assess alternative business cases - reforming military HR to combat instability in the 'Global South' or utilising new technologies to overcome the prohibitive costs of current systems. Analysing the philosophical, strategic and budgetary underpinnings of these alternatives, he concludes that a more radical break from current military organisational practices is needed which would allow them to fit within a nation's overall national security system without ever-increasing budgets"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 198-213) and index.
650 0 $aMilitary art and science$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xArmed Forces.
650 0 $aWar$xForecasting.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/94772/cover/9781107094772.jpg