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.
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ISBN
9781316289846
Publisert
2015
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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