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1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Witches' Brew; A Clear Case of Denial; Ike's Warning; Soft Touch on Cost; Political Engineering, ; 1 General Dynamics Digs In; The Batde for the Seawolf; Save Our Shipyard, ; A Successful Campaign; AChallenge to Electric Boat; 2 Defense Mergers; The F-16 Cash Cow; Information Services: A Growth Market; Do Mergers Bring Savings?; From Business Links to Restructuring Payments; Cozy Relationships; Rewards at the Top; Northrop Grumman: Operation Salvage; Loral: Merger Mania; 3 Arms Sales Abroad |
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Not Any Old ProductCan We Foresee Unintended Consequences?; Bipartisan Arms Pushers; The Code of Conduct and Needed Reforms; Which Way for McDonnell Douglas?; Which Way for Arms Sales?; 4 Selling to Civilian Government Agencies; Intelligent"" Transportation; Safer Skies; High-Tech Services; Local and State Governments as Markets; Foreign Markets; 5 Trying to Enter Commercial Markets; Ahead of Schedule; Head in the Sky, Feet on the Ground; Saving the Tucson Plant; Jobs Still Disappearing; GM and Electric Vehicles; The Bath Iron Works; Brains as WeIl as Brawn; Workplace of the Future, |
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Can Hughes and BIW Make It?6 Flexibility: Key to Smaller Defense Firms' Survival; The Frisby Success Story; M/A-Com: ""Rebuilding the Airplane While in Flight, ; Gull Electronics: Breaking Down the Walls; Ace Clearwater Enterprises: Director of Change; Can Partnerships Prevail?; Small Firms Find Banks Wary; Broad Range of Commercial Efforts; 7 The Weapons Labs: Can Bomb Designers Help Industry?; Business-Government Partnerships; Troubled History; Gains in Health Care and Environment; Helping CRADAs Survive; The Future of the Labs; The Critics Respond; Community Involvement; Ticklish Questions |
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8 Local Activists Pitch InOnly One Piece of the Process; As Maine Goes ... ; Slowly Building the Structures; Beating the St. Louis Blues; Industrial Policy; New Currents in a Navy Stronghold; A Mix of Backgrounds; Common Threads; 9 State Governments Take Action; Connecticut; Washington State; Pioneering in Ohio; Head Start in New York; Late Start in Texas; Closing the Gaps in Maryland; Transitional Aid in Massachusetts; The Strategy of Economic Development; 10 Pink Slips for Defense Workers; The Human Dimension; The Winners; Poor Prospects; What if There Are No Jobs? |
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More Jobs in the Civilian SectorA New Industry; A New Approach to Work; 11 Congress, Pork, and Defense Jobs; Tip"" Ladles It In; Everybody But the Taxpayers; Subcontractors: Lobbying Support; Anchors Aweigh!; Aligned with Contractors; The Case of Jane Harman; Does Money Prevail?; Not All Succumb; Did a GOP Majority Change the System?; 12 The Clinton Administration and Dual Use; Thirty Years of Inaction; Clinton's Choices as President; Under Attack, TRP Bent; Piggybacking; Procurement Reform; The Pull of the Market; Underfunding Investments; The Other Side of the Street; Unneeded Weapons |
| Summary |
"Whatever happened to the post?Cold War?peace dividend?? Why does military spending continue to escape federal budget reductions? Why, despite the nearly universal desire to reduce government waste and budget deficits, is the United States still saddled with a costly, bloated military-industrial complex? The answer, says Sanford Gottlieb, is a debilitating dependence of a key sector of the American economy on defense jobs and profits. Based on hundreds of interviews with defense contractors, union representatives, members of Congress, state and federal officials, lobbyists, economic development professionals, and local activists, Defense Addiction explains how these groups and individuals cope with defense dependence, competition for federal funds, and budget and job cuts?painting a sobering picture of how this addiction hampers the nation's ability to deal effectively with a host of domestic and global problems. Providing guidance to companies and communities struggling to break free in the face of inadequate government policies, Gottlieb's engaging and jargon-free volume points to civilian public investments, reduced military spending, strengthened international peacekeeping, and other measures that could help our country kick the habit."--Provided by publisher |
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13 The Bigger Picture |
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Defense industries-United States
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Military-industrial complex-United States
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United States-Defenses-Economic aspects
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United States-Military policy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429969638 |
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0429969635 |
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