British Weapons Acquisition Policy and the Futility of Reform
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Author_Warren A. Chin
British defence procurement
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Cold War policy analysis
cost escalation in defence projects
Defence Contractors
Defence Industrial Base
Defence Market
Defence Procurement
defence procurement process
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European Defence Market
Firm Price Contract
Fixed Price Contracts
intergenerational costs of weapons
military industrial relations
NAO Statistic
Nimrod AEW
Operational Requirements Staff
public sector innovation
research and development strategy
Smart Procurement
technology acquisition management
Thatcherite reforms
UK Aerospace
UK Aerospace Industry
UK Debate
UK Defence
UK Defence Budget
UK Defence Industrial Base
UK Defence Industry
UK Firm
UK Market
UK's Balance
UK's Defence Policy
UK's Force
VSEL
Product details
- ISBN 9780815387848
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 2004. This incisive work reveals the causes of escalating costs and delays in British defence procurement from 1945 to the present. Tackling a complex subject in a straightforward and readable manner, it considers how successive British governments reacted to this problem, why they adopted the reforms they did and why these reforms failed to have any meaningful effect on the operation of this process. The study draws upon a number of disciplines such as economics, politics and science and engineering to provide a broad synthesis that allows the reader to understand the technicalities of the process. The conclusion reached is that there is no apparent solution to the problem of intergenerational costs of weapons, but that a key to controlling the growing cost of projects during their development lies in the construction of a more effective research and development strategy, a path followed by Margaret Thatcher's predecessors and one that is also being advocated today.
Warren A. Chin
