Defense Policy Formation

A Comparative Analysis of the McNamara Era

By Clark A. Murdock

Hardcover : 9780873952521, 209 pages, June 1974
Out of print (Hardcover)

Alternative formats available from:

View Table of Contents

Request Desk or Examination Copy
Request a Media Review Copy

Table of contents

Introduction

1. Defense Policy Formation and Weapons Innovation under Eisenhower Characterization of the Policy Formation Process under Eisenhower
Weapons Innovation in the 1950s
Case Study-- Air Defense Policy in the 1950s 2. Defense Policy Formation and Weapons Innovation under McNamara Defense Policy Formation under McNamara
Weapons Innovation under McNamara
Case Study-- Ballistic Missile Defense Policy under McNamara 3. Comparison of Weapons Innovation Policy

4. More Recent Evaluations of McNamara and Some Comments on Policy-Making under Laird Recent Appraisals of McNamara
Defense Policy-Making under Melvin Laird Notes
Bibliography
Index

Description

When Robert McNamara became U. S. Secretary of Defense, he introduced a new mode of making policy decisions: systems analysis. In Defense Policy Formation, Clark Murdock examines what effects this systems analysis had on policy-making process both in th