Book Description
This volume undertakes a systematic
review of the future strategic utility of the B-2 Advanced Technology
Bomber, and the capability it represents. It is intended to serve
as a case study of the type of analysis that should precede, trigger,
and sustain force structure decisions in this period of great change.
The B-2 bomber is the most advanced of an entire class of weapons
systems--long range, land-based strike aircraft--which all meet the
general selection criteria. Therefore it is well suited as a vehicle
for exploring the rationale and criteria for future strategic utility
of today's weapons systems.
The book addresses weapon system utility in terms tailored to the
defense and policy environments likely to pertain through the 1990's
and beyond. It emphasizes the policy demand that the United States
is likely to place on its military forces in the new security environment
and how that demand meshes with the characteristics of particular
weapons systems.
This analysis includes the development of eight areas, each the focus
of one chapter, from broad observations about the international security
environment and domestic attitudes through more detailed aspects of
defense decision-making to the specific formulation of defense program
initiatives.
Copublished with the National Institute for Public Policy.
About the Author(s)
Keith
B. Payne, Ph.D., is a policy analyst specializing in areas
of U.S. and Soviet strategic and defense policy, international security
affairs, and Soviet foreign policy. He is currently Director of National
Security Studies, the National Institute for Public Policy.
John J.III Kohout - No bio available.
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