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Decision-Making for Defense

By: Charles J. Hitch

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When President Kennedy appointed Robert McNamara Secretary of Defense in January, 1961 and McNamara called on Charles Hitch to join him, a new era of defense policy leadership was clearly at hand. Great problems of organization had emerged along with vast increases in American responsibility for the security of the free world in the post-war era of rapidly changing military technology. Defense department unification and other controversial questions of organization of the defense establishment assumed new dimensions with the advent of the new techniques of planning and analysis. Hitch discusses, from the rare perspective of an analytically gifted insider, how the Department of Defense achieved balanced programs and more effective forces through the firm application of the new management techniques without sweeping changes of organization structure. Important challenges still lie ahead. As Hitch says: "The objectives, the organization, and the management techniques of national defense are all interrelated. Organization and procedures must be adapted to our changing nationaal policies and objectives as well as to changes in the character of our resources and technologies. It will take all our ingenuity and skill to make these necessary adaptations so that we can continue to provide unified management of so great an enterprise as our present military establishment. At the beginning of our Constitutional history the building of three frigates and the management of a few companies to fight Indians were considered too great a task for the War Department alone." Management of the American defense establishment has been a subject of fascination, concern and occasional despair to generation of Presidents, legislators, military leaders, and informed citizens. Hitch provides historical perspective on these tasks of decision-making for national security, and he explains clearly and succinctly the contemporary problems of fitting together strategic alternatives, weapons technology, and economic resources to achieve a rational pattern of defense management. The modern tools for this task are new techniques of planning, programming, and budgeting, and, for evaluating complex situations, the methods of systems analysis, all of which are discussed in detail. Hitch was involved both in the origination of these management techniques while at the RAND Corporation and in the tremendous task of putting them to consistent, far reaching, and practical use in the Department of Defense. President Johnson termed Hitch "a principal architect of America's modern defense establishment . . . It is largely as a result of [his] efforts that this country now possesses the most balanced, flexible, combat-ready defense force in history and management system to maintain our superior military posture and use it with precision." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

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Decision-making for Defense

By: Charles J. Hitch

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Decision-making for Defense

By: Charles J. Hitch

Om beslutningstagen i militær/forsvarssammenhæng. Forfatteren er tidligere Secretary of Defense og giver en oversigt over forsvarsplanlægningen i USA 1789-1960, og redegør for moderne programmering og budgettering, cost-effectivenessanalyser, m.m.

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0520005635

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Modeling Energy-Economy Interactions

Five Appoaches

By: Charles J. Hitch

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Modeling Energy-Economy Interactions

Five Appoaches

By: Charles J. Hitch

This report, first published in 1977, explores several different approaches to the same question; namely, how severe will be the impact on key U.S. macro-economic variables of the transition from main reliance on oil and natural gas to other sources of energy? This book will be of interest to students of economics and environmental studies.

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1317397088

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9781317397083

Energy Conservation And Economic Growth

By: Charles J. Hitch

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Energy Conservation And Economic Growth

By: Charles J. Hitch

In this volume, eight energy experts address the question of how much energy conservation can contribute to national energy supplies and how it will affect economic growth. The authors differ in their assessment, some taking a pessimistic and others an optimistic view of conservation's ability to mitigate the damping effect of higher energy costs. They assign varying roles to conservation and energy supplies to meet social and economic goals, but agree on the need for more research. The areas of agreement include cost-effective conservation policies which rely heavily on market forces. They differ in their interpretations of historical data and the potential for substitution.

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126

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0429727046

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9780429727047

Metropolitanization and Public Services

By: Charles M. Haar,John G. Wofford,David L. Kirp,David K. Cohen,Leonard J. Duhl,Allen V. Haefele

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Metropolitanization and Public Services

By: Charles M. Haar,John G. Wofford,David L. Kirp,David K. Cohen,Leonard J. Duhl,Allen V. Haefele

Metropolitanization and Public Services is third in a series on the governance of metropolitan regions which aims to explore the welfare and development of Metropolitan America. Originally published in 1972, this study discusses who decides which essential public services need to be provided within a metropolitan area by looking at political reform as well as presenting ideas on functional efficiency, costs and benefits and the effectiveness of the political process. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies.

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1317307658

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Alaskan Oil

Alternative Routes and Markets

By: Charles J. Cicchetti

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Alaskan Oil

Alternative Routes and Markets

By: Charles J. Cicchetti

Originally published in 1972, this volume, supplemented extensively with maps and tables, and employing sophisticated institutional and empirical analyses, discusses a number of important issues relating to the viability of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and the natural environment. The author concludes that exploiting North Slope oil was justifiable as a calculated risk, although an alternative route and transport mode to the Midwest of eastern market would be more attractive than TAP.

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1351401203

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Inland Waterway Transportation

Studies in Public and Private Management and Investment Decisions

By: Charles W. Howe,Joseph L. Carroll,Arthur P. Hurter, Jr.,William J. Leininger,Steven G. Ramsey,Nancy L. Schwartz,Eugene Silberberg,Robert M. Steinberg

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Inland Waterway Transportation

Studies in Public and Private Management and Investment Decisions

By: Charles W. Howe,Joseph L. Carroll,Arthur P. Hurter, Jr.,William J. Leininger,Steven G. Ramsey,Nancy L. Schwartz,Eugene Silberberg,Robert M. Steinberg

Inland Waterway Transportation explores how tools of economic analysis can improve the efficiency of both public and private investment in inland waterway transportation. Originally published in 1969, this study investigates how waterway transportation has been affected by public operating policy, costs and charges for the use of waterways in the United States as well as the impact of relationships central to waterway policy and individual firms such as the effect of the waterway environment on a firm’s efficiency. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Studies and professionals.

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1317355288

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Reform of Metropolitan Governments

By: Steven P. Erie,John J. Kirlin,Francine F. Rabinovitz,Lance Liebman,Charles M. Haar

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Reform of Metropolitan Governments

By: Steven P. Erie,John J. Kirlin,Francine F. Rabinovitz,Lance Liebman,Charles M. Haar

Originally published in 1972, this study aims to explore governmental interaction with people and publics interests and institutions in Metropolitan America. These papers discuss issues of how governance can be improved and the federal role in Metropolitanism as well as suggesting ways in which political reform can help. This title will be of interest to students of Environmental Economics and professionals.

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Decision-Making for Defense

Decision-Making for Defense

Decision-making for Defense

Decision-making for Defense

Modeling Energy-Economy Interactions

Modeling Energy-Economy Interactions

Energy Conservation And Economic Growth

Energy Conservation And Economic Growth

Metropolitanization and Public Services

Metropolitanization and Public Services

Alaskan Oil

Alaskan Oil

Inland Waterway Transportation

Inland Waterway Transportation

Reform of Metropolitan Governments

Reform of Metropolitan Governments

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