After every previous war, we sent troops home and cut defense spending. The Col War is over, but real spending still runs 85 percent of the Cold War average.
Ann MarkusenDec 19, 2001
WORKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
John Alic, Lewis Branscomb, Harvey Brooks, Ashton Carter, and Gerald Epstein, Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World (Harvard Business School Press, 1992).
Bonn International Center for Conversion, Conversion Survey 1996: Global Disarmament, Demilitarization and Demobilization (Oxford University Press, 1996). |