Partners in Prevention, Making Public-Private Security Cooperation More Efficient, Effective and Sustainable, Recommendations of the Task Force

PASCC ReportA global economy has empowered criminals and terrorists on a global scale. Embedded across worldwide production, trade and investment networks, illicit trafficking in high-tech data and equipment, narcotics, arms and counterfeit goods has laid bare the weaknesses of top-down government controls. Without bold changes, both public and private interests are likely to suffer a growing toll from this insidious and intermingling array of threats, including the especially grave threat of nuclear proliferation.Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (PASCC), Center on Contemporary Conflict, Naval Postgraduate Schoo

Defense Planning and Policy: Introduction

The period from 1980 to 1985 marked the largest peacetime military build-up in United States history. During this period, defense appropriations increased approximately 50 percent in real terms. The cost of defense was not an issue; instead, debates on national security concentrated primarily on external factors: the size and nature of the Soviet threat, the merits of a maritime strategy versus a coalition defense strategy, and the viability of a strategy to fight prolonged nuclear conflicts