Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen

The Military's Business

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that Western militaries must reform in order to become viable businesses that address relevant security issues within realistic budgets.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9781107094772
• ISBN-10: 1107094771
• Artikelnr.: 41645080

Autorenporträt

Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen is a professor at the University of Copenhagen. He is currently on leave working on policy development in the Danish Ministry of Defence. Rasmussen has previously headed the Centre for Military Studies and the Danish Institute for Military Studies in Copenhagen. He was published widely on security and defence matters, including The Risk Society at War (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The modern military system
3. The modern military system: the US case
4. The counterinsurgency business model
5. Converging technologies business model
6. Designer wars.