1st Edition
British Weapons Acquisition Policy and the Futility of Reform
By Warren A. Chin
Copyright 2004
310 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 2004. This incisive work reveals the causes of escalating costs and delays in British defence procurement from 1945 to the present. Tackling a complex subject in a straightforward and readable manner, it considers how successive British governments reacted to this problem, why they adopted the reforms they did and why these reforms failed to have any meaningful effect on... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The demise of commercial practice in defence procurement: changes in state and military industrial relations in the Cold War; Defence procurement and competition policy: 1945-79; Explaining the failure of the British defence procurement process and the rise of competition in the 1980s; The impact of technological innovation on the British defence market: 1979-97; The rise of international competition in British defence procurement: 1979-97; The impact of better commercial practice on the operation of the defence procurement process: 1979-97; Conclusion: the future of British defence procurement; Bibliography; Index.
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Warren A. Chin
