The MX Decision: A New Direction in U.S. Weapons Procurement Policy?

ISBN-13: 9780367309640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 289 str.

Lauren H. Holland; Robert A. Hoover

Opis

Focusing especially on the history of the MX program, this book examines the process of U.S. weapons procurement decision making.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Bureaucratic Politics Paradigm for Procurement Decision Making -- Bureaucratic Politics and Procurement Decisions -- Issues and Actors -- A Peek through the Window of Vulnerability: Shall We have a New ICBM? -- A Peek through the Window of Vulnerability: What Shall Be the Basing Mode? -- Foreign Policy and the MX Decision -- Mxing it up in the Great Basin -- MX Decision Making -- From the Origins of MX to Two Decisions for Acquisition -- Congress and MX -- The Public Arena and MX -- The Reagan Basing-Mode-of-the-Month Club -- Conclusions -- Epilogue

O autorze

Lauren H. Holland is assistant professor of political science at the University of Utah. Robert A. Hoover is associate professor and chair of the department of political science at Utah State University.