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This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent
public-private enterprise covering politics, management, society,
and technology, as well as the military. Building upon wide-ranging
applied research, with extensive access to ministers, policy
makers, senior military commanders, and industrialists, the book
characterises British defence as a phenomenon that has endured
extensive transformation this century. Looking at the subject
afresh as a complex, extended enterprise involving politics,
alliances, businesses, skills, economics, military practices, and
citizens, the authors profoundly reshape our understanding of
'defence' and how it is to be commissioned and delivered in a world
dominated by geopolitical risks and uncertainties. The book makes
the case that this new understanding of defence must inevitably
lead to new policies and processes to ensure its health and
vitality. This book will be of much interest to students of defence
studies, British politics, and military and strategic studies, as
well as policy makers and practitioners.
The relationship between government and the businesses that
contribute towards the defence and security of the state is a
critical one; it often underscores a modern state's foreign policy
and sense of place in the world. Yet, despite its clear importance,
this subject is underexplored and rarely analysed in a rigorous
manner. As a consequence, government defence industrial policies,
if they exist at all, often seem somewhat contrived, ill-considered
and contradictory. The Defence Industrial Triptych systematically
analyses the components and drivers of the relationships that bind
a government to its defence industrial base by examining three
major case studies: the UK, US and Germany, who between them
account for over three quarters of NATO defence spending. The
features of their defence industrial relationships -whether common
or unique - provide vital lessons for policy-makers, industrialists
and the taxpayer. As defence cuts bite across NATO and as the UK
approaches the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review, the
relationships this Whitehall Paper considers are more important
than ever.
The relationship between government and the businesses that
contribute towards the defence and security of the state is a
critical one; it often underscores a modern state's foreign policy
and sense of place in the world. Yet, despite its clear importance,
this subject is underexplored and rarely analysed in a rigorous
manner. As a consequence, government defence industrial policies,
if they exist at all, often seem somewhat contrived, ill-considered
and contradictory. The Defence Industrial Triptych systematically
analyses the components and drivers of the relationships that bind
a government to its defence industrial base by examining three
major case studies: the UK, US and Germany, who between them
account for over three quarters of NATO defence spending. The
features of their defence industrial relationships -whether common
or unique - provide vital lessons for policy-makers, industrialists
and the taxpayer. As defence cuts bite across NATO and as the UK
approaches the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review, the
relationships this Whitehall Paper considers are more important
than ever.
This book analyses UK defence as a complex, interdependent
public-private enterprise covering politics, management, society,
and technology, as well as the military. Building upon wide-ranging
applied research, with extensive access to ministers, policy
makers, senior military commanders, and industrialists, the book
characterises British defence as a phenomenon that has endured
extensive transformation this century. Looking at the subject
afresh as a complex, extended enterprise involving politics,
alliances, businesses, skills, economics, military practices, and
citizens, the authors profoundly reshape our understanding of
'defence' and how it is to be commissioned and delivered in a world
dominated by geopolitical risks and uncertainties. The book makes
the case that this new understanding of defence must inevitably
lead to new policies and processes to ensure its health and
vitality. This book will be of much interest to students of defence
studies, British politics, and military and strategic studies, as
well as policy makers and practitioners.
The role of Western defence businesses in the Kuwait War showed the
value of industrial support for modern military operations, while
the political and economic importance of defence companies
continues to attract attention, not least because of European
concerns about US domination. Defence businesses in Europe are
faced with three simultaneous challenges - the need to take optimum
advantage of a range of emerging technologies, military demands for
equipment suitable for a range of missions and climates, and
decreasing defence budgets, and there is a considerable variation
in the policies of national governments with regard to how industry
can meet these challenges. The authors identify a range of possible
strategies for governments and industry, including concentrating on
systems integration skills or on less technologically-sophisticated
systems. However, they find that, if defence businesses in Europe
are to produce equipment of comparable standard to that emerging in
the US, they need to be further re-organised to acquire European
reather than national characters: an Airbus-plus model for
industrial organizations is advanced. Undoubtedly such change would
raise significant issues for governments of how such industry would
be sponsored and regulated, but the alternative appears to be
national defence industrial firms in Europe with little commercial
future or military value to their governments.
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