NATO and the new technologies
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NATO and the new technologies
(NATO series)
University Press of America, c1989
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Co-published by arrangement with the Atlantic Council of the United States"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780819173232
Description
NATO has traditionally relied on its technological superiority to offset the Warsaw Pact's numerical advantage. This equation, however, is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. Despite NATO's considerably greater outlays for defense, the numerical balance continues to favor the Warsaw Pact and the technological "gap" between East and West is narrowing. To rectify this situation NATO has two courses of actionóembrace a spectrum of new technologies which offer the prospect of dramatic improvements in capability, or extract better value for the money from its defense allocations. These two possibilities need not be mutually exclusive, although historically they have been. Clearly, NATO must reform its approach to weapons procurement if it is to exploit new technology as effectively as possible in periods of budgetary stringency. The need for reform is evident: The Warsaw Pact spends less than NATO on defense but outproduces NATO in virtually every weapons category. This volume examines these problems and shows that in order to exploit available technologies at an affordable cost, NATO clearly must organize its defense procurement more efficiently. Co-published with the Atlantic Council of the United States.
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: pbk ISBN 9780819173249
Description
NATO has traditionally relied on its technological superiority to offset the Warsaw Pact's numerical advantage. This equation, however, is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. Despite NATO's considerably greater outlays for defense, the numerical balance continues to favor the Warsaw Pact and the technological 'gap' between East and West is narrowing. To rectify this situation NATO has two courses of action-embrace a spectrum of new technologies which offer the prospect of dramatic improvements in capability, or extract better value for the money from its defense allocations. These two possibilities need not be mutually exclusive, although historically they have been. Clearly, NATO must reform its approach to weapons procurement if it is to exploit new technology as effectively as possible in periods of budgetary stringency. The need for reform is evident: The Warsaw Pact spends less than NATO on defense but outproduces NATO in virtually every weapons category. This volume examines these problems and shows that in order to exploit available technologies at an affordable cost, NATO clearly must organize its defense procurement more efficiently. Co-published with the Atlantic Council of the United States.
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