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Security Analysis: A Critical Thinking Approach, Michael W. Collier Jan 2023

Security Analysis: A Critical Thinking Approach, Michael W. Collier

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Security Analysis: A Critical-Thinking Approach is for anyone desiring to learn techniques for generating the best answers to complex questions and best solutions to complex problems. It furnishes current and future analysts in national security, homeland security, law enforcement, and corporate security an alternative, comprehensive process for conducting both intelligence analysis and policy analysis. The target audience is upper-division undergraduate students and new graduate students, along with entry-level practitioner trainees. The book centers on a Security Analysis Critical-Thinking Framework that synthesizes critical-thinking and existing analytic techniques. Ample examples are provided to assist readers in comprehending the material. Newly created material …


The U.S. Defense Industry After The Cold War, Murray L. Weidenbaum Apr 1997

The U.S. Defense Industry After The Cold War, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The U.S. defense industry is adjusting to the end of the Cold War far more rapidly and effectively than was generally expected. Current security decision-makers can count on the presence of a strong defense industrial base. But that situation cannot be taken for granted in the years ahead and judging the industrial base capacity is challenging. It requires us to deal with international issues during a time of domestic concern, to consider military outlays in a period of budgetary austerity, and to worry about the competition for the production of weapons systems when the economy is undergoing a wave of …


Economics And The National Security, Murray L. Weidenbaum May 1988

Economics And The National Security, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

Murray Weidenbaum discusses the relationship between defense spending and the national economy.