The U.S. Defense Industry After the Cold War

Authors

Murray L. Weidenbaum, Washington University in St Louis

Files

Publication Date

4-1-1997

Series Information

Policy Brief 179

Publisher

Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130

Description

The U.S. defense industry is adjusting to the end of the Cold War far more rapidly and effectively than was generally expected. Current security decision-makers can count on the presence of a strong defense industrial base. But that situation cannot be taken for granted in the years ahead and judging the industrial base capacity is challenging. It requires us to deal with international issues during a time of domestic concern, to consider military outlays in a period of budgetary austerity, and to worry about the competition for the production of weapons systems when the economy is undergoing a wave of mergers, consolidations, and downsizing.

Keywords

US Defense Policy, Cold War, Military Industrial Base, National Security

Disciplines

Economics | Public Policy

Comments

The Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB), 1975-2001, is the predecessor of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. Permanent URL: http://dx.doi/org/10.7936/K7S180PQ

DOI

doi:10.7936/K7S180PQ

Recommended Citation

Weidenbaum, Murray L., "The U.S. Defense Industry After the Cold War", Policy Brief 179, 1997, doi:10.7936/K7S180PQ.
Murray Weidenbaum Publications, https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mlw_papers/146.