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The Military's Business: Designing Military Power for the Future
Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen
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Description for The Military's Business: Designing Military Power for the Future
paperback. Argues that Western militaries must reform in order to become viable businesses that address relevant security issues within realistic budgets. Num Pages: 232 pages, 9 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JW; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
If the military were a business, would you buy shares? Over recent years, Western armed forces, particularly the US, have been costing more yet achieving less. At the same time, austerity measures are reducing defence budgets. This book uses defence data to examine the workings of modern Western militaries and explore what kind of strategies can overcome this gap between input and output. Instead of focusing on military strategy, Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen seeks to draw on the ideas of business strategy to assess alternative business cases - reforming military HR to combat instability in the 'Global South' or utilising new ... Read more
If the military were a business, would you buy shares? Over recent years, Western armed forces, particularly the US, have been costing more yet achieving less. At the same time, austerity measures are reducing defence budgets. This book uses defence data to examine the workings of modern Western militaries and explore what kind of strategies can overcome this gap between input and output. Instead of focusing on military strategy, Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen seeks to draw on the ideas of business strategy to assess alternative business cases - reforming military HR to combat instability in the 'Global South' or utilising new ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107477353
SKU
V9781107477353
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99-26
About Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen
Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen is a professor at the University of Copenhagen. He is currently on leave working on policy development in the Danish Ministry of Defence. Rasmussen has previously headed the Centre for Military Studies and the Danish Institute for Military Studies in Copenhagen. He was published widely on security and defence matters, including The Risk Society at War (Cambridge ... Read more
Reviews for The Military's Business: Designing Military Power for the Future
'Why are Western armed forces achieving less and costing more, asks the author. Why, we might add, if the trend continues they seem to be fated to occupy a modest evolutionary niche? Rasmussen has produced not only a lucid, informed and compelling critique of the West's failed military business model but also a set of prescriptions it would be wise ... Read more