Archive for the ‘Issues’ Category

The Geopolitical Consequences of the World Economic Recession — A Caution

Robert D. Blackwill. RAND Occasional Paper, 2009.

Index Research: The Pentagon and Oil

Sarah Meyer. Index Research, 24 July 2008.
http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2008/07/index-research-pentagon-and-oil.html

The Airpower Advantage in Future Warfare: The Need for Strategy

Colin S. Gray. Air Force Doctrine Development and Education Center, December 2007.
http://defensealt.org/HLacBn

A Geriatric Peace? The Future of U.S. Power in a World of Aging Populations

Mark L. Haas. International Security, Summer 2007.
http://defensealt.org/HdJiXK

A New Division of Labor: Meeting America’s Security Challenges Beyond Iraq

Andrew R. Hoehn, Adam Grissom, David Ochmanek, David A. Shlapak, Alan J. Vick. RAND, 2007.
Full report: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG499.pdf
Summary: http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND_MG499.sum.pdf

Performance-Based Logistics: Buying Performance, Not Parts

Steve Geary. Presentation to Supply Chain World conference, 26 March 2006. Hosted on the Commonwealth Institute website.
http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/06Geary.pdf

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Editor’s Comment:

Although this presentation focuses on logistics and maintenance of equipment, it includes useful information pertaining to the tradeoffs between operational ambitions / quality and costs of maintenance of forces that are inherent in “performance based” approaches.
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