How much is enough? : : shaping the defense program, 1961-1969 / / Alain C. Enthoven, K. Wayne Smith.

A work of enduring value and lasting relevance, this book is both a classic account of the application of powerful ideas to the problem of managing the Department of Defense (DoD) and a cautionary history of the controversies inspired by that successful effort. Robert S. McNamara took office in 1961...

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Year of Publication:2005
Edition:New ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (395 p.)
Notes:"MG-407."
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Table of Contents:
  • Unfinished business, 1961
  • New concepts and new tools to shape the defense program
  • Why independent analysts?
  • NATO strategy and forces
  • Nuclear strategy and forces
  • Yardsticks of sufficiency
  • Three controversial program decisions
  • Some problems in wartime defense management
  • Unfinished business, 1969.