Strategy-Policy Mismatch: How the U.S. Army Can Help Close Gaps in Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction

doi:10.7249/RR541

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DOI	10.7249/RR541
报告编号	RR-541-RC
	Strategy-Policy Mismatch: How the U.S. Army Can Help Close Gaps in Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
	Timothy M. Bonds; Eric V. Larson; Derek Eaton; Richard E. Darilek
	2014
出版年	2014
页数	156
语种	英语
国家	美国
出版者	RAND Corporation
领域	资源环境
英文摘要	Although two successive presidents have determined that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) — particularly nuclear weapons in the hands of violent extremists — pose the greatest threat to the American people, and have decided that countering their proliferation is a top strategic priority, neither administration has made countering WMD a priority when it comes to allocating budgetary resources to that overarching national mission. In the public domain, little analysis exists that assesses the capacity and capabilities required by military forces to conduct WMD elimination (WMD-E) operations. As a result, public discussion of what capabilities the military requires for such operations generally omits or gives short shrift to requirements for the WMD-E mission. The purpose of this report is to address and analyze those requirements, namely, the ground force capacity (force size) and capabilities (force structure) needed to accomplish WMD-E missions and tasks. These analyses provide an informed description of the types and size of U.S. Army forces required to conduct WMD-E operations in a wide range of situations. The authors explore in depth two particularly salient cases: operations to secure loose WMD in the event that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) collapses and a counterfactual scenario in which U.S. operations were ordered to eliminate the Syrian chemical weapons program in the wake of a Syrian regime collapse.
英文关键词	Global Security Syria Security Cooperation RAND-initiated Nuclear Weapons and Warfare Weapons Of Mass Destruction Arms Proliferation and Control Threat Assessment Military Budgets and Defense Spending North Korea United States Army Nuclear Dete
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文献类型	科技报告
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/3962
专题	资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Timothy M. Bonds,Eric V. Larson,Derek Eaton,et al. Strategy-Policy Mismatch: How the U.S. Army Can Help Close Gaps in Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction:RAND Corporation,2014.