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Contents
Tables and Figures
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction
1. The Military Industrial Challenge - Ann R. Markusen and Sean S. Costigan
Part II. Transformation in the Post-Cold War Decade
2. Contending Security Doctrines and the Military Industrial Base - Greg Bischak
3. Cashing In, Cashing Out, and Converting: Restructuring of the Defense Industrial Base in the 1990s - Michael Oden
4. The History and Politics of the Pentagon's Dual-Use Strategy - Jay Stowsky
5. Redefining National Defense: The Challenge of Cold War Politics and Economics on Capitol Hill - Paul F. Walker
Part III. The Consequences of Defense Industry Consolidation
6. Private Arsenals: America's Post-Cold War Burden - Harvey M. Sapolsky and Eugene Gholz
7. Defense Mergers: Weapons Cost, Innovation, and International Arms Industry Cooperation - Erik Pages
8. Redesigning the Defense Industrial Base - Kenneth Flamm
Part IV. The Push to Export
9. The Changing Economics of the Arms Trade - David Gold
10. Dual-Use Technology: Back to the Future? - Judith Reppy
11. A Framework for Limiting the Negative Consequences of Surplus U.S. Arms Production and Trading - Lora Lumpe
Part V. Defense Industry Globalization
12. Globalization in the Post-Cold War Defense Industry: Challenges and Opportunities -Richard A. Bitzinger
13. Which Way to Turn? The European Defense Industry After the Cold War - John Lovering
14. The Changing Civil-Military Production Mix in Western Europe's Defense Industry - Michael Brzoska, Peter Wilke, and Herbert Wulf
Part VI. An Industry for the Future
15. Policy Choices in Arming the Future - Ann R. Markusen and Sean S. Costigan
Contributors
Index Tables and Figures
Overview
The end of the Cold War created a crisis for the American military industrial complex: procurement spending dropped by more than 60 percent in a decade and the export market imploded. In Arming the Future: A Defense Industry for the Twenty-first Century, a group of policymakers, industry-watchers, and scholars, dissects the upheavals of the 1990s, especially the rash of mergers that reduced the defense industry to a few major players.
Looking ahead to imminent transnational mergers and partnerships, Council Senior Fellow Ann Markusen and Columbia International Affairs Online Editor Sean Costigan, the book’s editors, warn that the Pentagon will lose market power in such a world. More, rather than less, oversight will be required. They caution against the current fad for privatization and counsel cooperation with European and other allies in rationalizing defense industrial capacity.
