National defence in the age of austerity
National defence in the age of austerity
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紧缩时代的国防
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2009
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A. Dorman
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作者：
P. Cornish;A. Dorman
下一次英国防务审查的准备工作正在进行中;一场斗争迫在眉睫，战线正在划定。在新的“紧缩时代”，国防计划和战略将受到部落冲突的驱动，这是一个严重的危险，要么是一个或另一个武装部队的支持者之间，要么是关于冲突性质的争论观点之间。还有一些人会争辩说，防务审查应该仅仅是出于尽快削减政府开支的需要。这些论点不仅将国防辩论简化为各种不相容和不妥协的部落信仰之间的斗争--也许是“恋物癖之间的战争”--他们也没有抓住要点。本文评估了英国国防机构在未来十年将面临的经济挑战的程度。作者认为，如何最好地处理问题的不减少（甚至扩大）的承诺，在资源减少的时候。他们认为，国防规划应受价值观念（功能与成本之比）的驱动，这反过来又要求有明确的国家政治愿景和注重产出而不是投入的国防机构。最后，作者认为，国防必须自我改造，以便能够以最有效和最有针对性的方式实现所需的产出。
Preparations for the next UK defence review are under way; a struggle is imminent and the lines of battle are being drawn. There is a grave danger that in the new ‘age of austerity’ defence planning—and strategy generally—will be driven by tribal conflicts, either between supporters of one or other of the armed services or between contending viewpoints about the nature of conflict. And there will be others who will argue that the defence review should be driven simply by the need to reduce government expenditure, as quickly as possible. These arguments not only reduce the defence debate to a struggle between various incompatible and uncompromising tribal beliefs—‘war among the fetishes’, perhaps—they also miss the point. This article gauges the extent of the economic challenges which the UK defence establishment will confront over the coming decade. The authors consider how best to approach the problem of undiminished (and even expanding) commitments at a time of decreasing resources. They argue that defence planning should be driven by the notion of value (the ratio of function to cost), which in turn requires both a clear national political vision and a defence establishment which is output- rather than input-oriented. Finally, the authors assert that defence must transform itself to be able to achieve the outputs required in the most efficient and responsive manner.