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Book SynopsisTrade Review’Understanding the complex interactions of economic, budgetary, security and business strategies that characterize the defense industrial base is a daunting undertaking. Nayantara Hensel has given us the long awaited primer on the topic, with emphasis on today’s challenges and strategic choices. This volume is a must for the bookshelves of defense policy makers, professionals and students.’ Douglas A. Brook, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, USA ’Designing and implementing good defense policies would seem to require a contest of big ideas about war and peace. Dr Nayantara Hensel has provided an essential guidebook to the real arena where this contest is conducted on a daily basis, that is, in debates about public budgets and deficits, jobs, and corporate and national alliances and rivalries.’ Paul Thomas, Intel Corporation, USA
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1: The Evolution and Challenges of the US Defense Budget and the Tradeoffs Impacting the Defense Industrial Base; 2: The US Defense Industrial Base; 3: Defense Industry Consolidation; 4: Defense Industrial Alliances; 5: Globalization and the US Defense Industrial Base; 6: The Role of the US in the International Defense Market; 7: The Global Defense Market; 8: Global Arms Deliveries; Conclusion