Handbook of Military Administration

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Jeffrey A. Weber, Johan Eliasson
CRC Press, 2007 M12 7 - 480 pages
While policy makers are perpetually conceptualizing new reform packages, the actual enactment of those reforms is typically more challenging. Remarkably, the one public institution that is able to meet that challenge is also the largest. The United States Department of Defense, which employs over 600,000 people and deals with $500 billion in fundin
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
The Coutervailing Patterns of American Military Administration
9
Chapter 3 Military Administration 18501900
31
Chapter 4 Reshaping the Defense Enterprise
47
Chapter 5 Strategic Planning by the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff 1990 to 2005
75
Chapter 6 The Leviathans Bit The US Defense Budget
99
DoDs National Security Personnel System Faces Implementation Challenges
125
Chapter 8 The History and Role of TRADOC System Manager TSM Abrams
145
Chapter 12 CivilMilitary Relations Theory and Military Effectveness
237
Chapter 13 Application of the Military for Coutnering Nostate Terrorist and Guerilla Networks
255
Chapter 14 Military Leadership and Culture
283
Chapter 15 The Profession of Arms and the Management of Violence
301
The European Security and Defense Policy
317
Chapter 17 Transformation at Last? Achieving Radical Military Reform in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
347
Chapter 18 Overview of Latin Americas Military Administrations
373
Peoples Republic of China
409

Chapter 9 Private Military Companies
161
Chapter 10 Defense Policy and Doctrinal Insluation
191
Chapter 11 Military and Homeland Security
221
Index
429
Back cover
451
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