Accounting at War: The Politics of Military Finance

ISBN-13: 9781138616738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 216 str.

Warwick Funnell; Michele Chwastiak

Opis

Accounting at War emphasizes the significant power that financial and accounting controls gave to political elites and the impact of these controls on military performance. Accounting at War examines the effects of these controls in wars such as the Crimean, South African and Vietnam wars.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures Foreword Preface Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Pathological Responses to Accounting Controls in the Crimean War. Chapter 3. Accounting for Military Failure in the South African War. Chapter 4. Military Accounting and the Business of War. Chapter 5. Taming the Untamable: Planning, Programing and Budgeting and the Normalization of War. Chapter 6. Rationality, Performance Measures and Representations of Reality in the Vietnam War. Chapter 7. The Holocaust, Accounting and the Denial of Humanity. Chapter 8. Rendering Death and Destruction Visible: Counting the Costs of War. Chapter 9. Commodifying State Crime: Accounting for "Extraordinary Rendition" References Index