HOBKIRK Michael D

The politics of defence budgeting: a study of organisation and resource allocation in the United Kingdom and the United States - Washington, DC: National Defence University Press, 1983 - 167p.

This study is the insight to be gained by comparing the evolution of two defence organisations that had similar origins in 1940s but have developed in different ways. The great difference in scale between the US and UK armed forces invalidates any comparisons between the two defence departments. The comparative studies of defence organisations can fulfill a number of useful purposes. To study another's organisation can help one to understand one's own better by learning which aspects of it are unique and shared with similar organisations elsewhere.

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UNITED STATES -- POLITICS
UNITED STATES -- ARMED FORCES
UNITED KINGDOM -- ARMED FORCES