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Resource allocation and defense planning in retrospect and prospect

The title of this paper is formidable, and probably pretentious, in scope. The first part of the topic, 'Resource Allocation, ' embraces literally all of defense economics. The second part, 'Defense Planning, ' if interpreted literally, covers strategic forces, doctrines, and targeting; general purpose forces and their employment; defense research, development and systems acquisition; command, control and communications, the effects of SALT II and other arms control agreements on all of the foregoing; and so forth. Furthermore, the combination of 'resource allocation' and 'defense planning' implicitly covers other special policy issues, as well. For example, such issues as arms transfers, and the structure, scale, and role of overseas bases and deployments of U.S. Forces, in NATO, Korea, and the Philippines, also come within the topic, because they involve the allocation of defense resources. Even an issue as remote as U.S. export control policies legitimately comes within the purview of resource allocation and defense planning. For example, U.S. exports of computer technology may affect Soviet capabilities, and hence influence U.S. defense planning and resource allocations.

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