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| fixed length control field |
01572nam a22001937a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9781107477353 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
355.020973 |
| Item number |
RAS-M |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Rasmussen, Mikkel Vedby |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Millitary's Business |
| Sub Title |
: Designing Military Power For the Future |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
United Kingdom |
| Name of publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
| Year of publication |
2015 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
ix,215p. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
includes Bibliography & index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
If the military were a business, would you buy shares? Over recent years, Western armed forces, particularly the US, have been costing more yet achieving less. At the same time, austerity measures are reducing defence budgets. This book uses defence data to examine the workings of modern Western militaries and explore what kind of strategies can overcome this gap between input and output. Instead of focusing on military strategy, Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen seeks to draw on the ideas of business strategy to assess alternative business cases - reforming military HR to combat instability in the 'Global South' or utilising new technologies to overcome the prohibitive costs of current systems. Analysing the philosophical, strategic and budgetary underpinnings of these alternatives, he concludes that a more radical break from current military organisational practices is needed which would allow them to fit within a nation's overall national security system without ever-increasing budgets. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Military art and science |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
War--Forecasting |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Armed Forces--Finance |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Armed Forces--Personnel management |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
