17.460 Defense Politics, Fall 2002

Sapolsky, Harvey M.

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Sapolsky, Harvey M.

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Defense Politics

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Abstract

This course focuses on the institutional relationships that affect the raising, maintenance and use of military forces in the United States. It is about civil/military, government/industry, military/science and military service/military service relations. The course examines how politicians, defense contractors, and military officers determine the military might of the United States. It analyses the military strategies of the nation and the bureaucratic strategies of the armed services, contractors, and defense scientists. It offers a combination of military sociology, organizational politics, and the political economy of defense.

Date issued

2002-12

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34933

Department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science

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17.460-Fall2002

local: 17.460

local: IMSCP-MD5-5736d459f817421144d63ca4b21af703

Keywords

United States, defense, policy, institutional relationships, military, forces, civil, government, industry, science, military relations, politicians, defense contractors, officers, strategies, bureaucracy, armed services, contractors, defense scientists, sociology, organization, politics, political economy, congress, presiden, homeland, intraservice, interservice, cargo, security, terror, war

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