New challenges, new tools for defense decisionmaking / / [edited by] Stuart E. Johnson, Martin C. Libicki, Gregory F. Treverton.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold WarÑand then the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001Ñtransformed the task of American foreign and defense policymaking. This book outlines the dimensions of that transformation and sketches new tools for dealing with the policy challenge...

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Year of Publication:2003
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (415 p.)
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505 0 |a PREFACE; CONTENTS; FIGURES; TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; FROM OLD CHALLENGES TO NEW; HOW THIS VOLUME IS ORGANIZED; PART I. NEW CHALLENGES FOR DEFENSE; INTRODUCTION TO PART I; Chapter One DECISIONMAKING FOR DEFENSE; DECIDING WHAT DECISIONS MUST BE MADE; DECIDING WHO MAKES THE DECISIONS; DECIDING HOW TO ALLOCATE RESOURCES; DECIDING WHAT INVESTMENTS TO MAKE; ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO DECISIONMAKING; ALTERNATIVE DECISIONMAKING STYLES; LOOKING TO THE FUTURE; Chapter Two RESPONDING TO ASYMMETRIC THREATS; FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE PRESENT; EXAMPLES OF ASYMMETRIC THREATS 
505 8 |a HOW WOULD ADVERSARIES SHAPE ASYMMETRIC THREATS?THE IMPORTANCE OF SURPRISE AND ANONYMITY; CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE CYCLES; THE CHALLENGE OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION; A FRAMEWORK FOR RESPONDING TO ASYMMETRIC THREATS; Institutionalization Through Protection; Institutionalization Through Threat Management; Internationalization; CONCLUSIONS; Chapter Three WHAT INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE FOR DEFENSE?; WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE?; The Global Information Grid; Need There Be Architecture?; Architecture Follows Culture?; DoD as an Institution in Its Own League; ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE; Collection; Access 
505 8 |a PresentationNetworking; Knowledge Maintenance and Management; Security; Interoperability; Integration; THE NEED TO THINK NOW; PART II. COPING WITH UNCERTAINTY; INTRODUCTION TO PART II; Chapter Four INCORPORATING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN DEFENSE PLANNING; MODEST PROPOSITIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE; REAL REVOLUTIONS ON THE PHYSICAL BATTLEFIELD; Hitting What Can Be Seen; From Contingency to Necessity; The Coming Architecture of Military Organization; Conventional War, Hyperwar, and Mud Warfare; FALSE REVOLUTIONS ON THE VIRTUAL BATTLEFIELD; What Is Information Warfare?; Electronic Warfare 
505 8 |a Command-and-Control WarfarePsychological Operations; The Ghost in the Machine; THE LESSON OF SEPTEMBER 11; Chapter Five UNCERTAINTY-SENSITIVE PLANNING; WHY SO MANY SURPRISES?; CONCEPTUAL STRATEGIC PLANNING; Uncertainty-Sensitive Strategic Planning; Operationalizing Strategic Planning in Portfolio-Management Terms; CAPABILITIES-BASED PLANNING; Key Features; Information Technology and Mission-System Analysis; Multiple Objectives and Measures; The Concept of a Scenario Space (an Assumptions Space); Choices and Resource Allocation; Chapter Six PLANNING THE FUTURE MILITARY WORKFORCE 
505 8 |a MILITARY HUMAN CAPITALHistorical Size, Source, and Composition of the Active Force; Ongoing Revolutions: Composition, Characteristics, and Attributes; Looking to the Future; MANPOWER AND PERSONNEL ANALYSIS; The Process; Choosing Among Alternatives, an Example; Chapter Seven THE SOLDIER OF THE 21st CENTURY; VISIONS OF THE FUTURE; Cyber Soldier; Information Warrior; Peace Operations; Rapid Response Force; Low-Manning Vessels; Evolutionary Change; EXPERIENCE OF THE ALL-VOLUNTEER FORCE; Versatility and Leadership; Attracting Quality Personnel; Economic Theories of Compensation 
505 8 |a ISSUES FOR THE FUTURE 
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