Fiscal and Economic Implications of Strategic Defenses

by Barry M Blechman and Victor A Utgoff

Book Overview

Estimates of the potential costs of alternative strategic defense systems should be an intrinsic element in decisions about whether the US should develop and deploy these systems, especially because of the ''opportunity costs' 'involved-what the nation would have to forgo in other military or civilian programs or in private resources because of higher taxes or larger deficits. In this book, the authors describe four notional strategic defense systems,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367156431
• ISBN13: 9780367156435
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 166 Pages