Economic Consequences of Armaments Production: Institutional Perspectives of J.K. Galbraith and T.B. Veblen

J.K. Galbraith’s short book, How to Control the Military, boldly championed political and institutional reforms to curb “the military power.” Galbraith stood out among economists for his advocacy of arms reduction negotiations with the Soviet Union. He rejected the hypothesis that the Soviet Union nurtured an aggressive expansionary military policy. At the same time, he maintained that the tenor of national policy and the shaping of national priorities emanated from the Pentagon. Galbraith’s assertion that the military was the dominant force within the “military-industrial complex” was never empirically demonstrated. Nor did he adequately address the crucial role that military outlays played in advancing major technological innovations which underwrote the accumulation process. Veblen offered a more comprehensive analysis of the role of military expenditures, correctly showing that forms of “waste” are highly functional to the institutional and ideological structure of the U.S. economy. Military Keynesianism constituted the evolution of his conceptualization.     

Assessing the Efficacy of Armed-Forces Recruitment Advertising: A Reasoned-Action Approach

SUMMARY

In an all-volunteer military service system, advertising is expected to fulfill a vital role in lead generation, which ultimately influences enlistment. The present study employed the theory of reasoned action to assess the efficacy of U.S. Naval recruitment commercials on relevant behavioral beliefs, social norms, interest, and behavioral intention. As expected, exposure to the commercials significantly enhanced beliefs toward the Navy, but Structural Equation Modeling revealed that exposure failed to enhance the influence of beliefs on interest in the Navy, with only social norms exerting a strong influence. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.     

The new growing paradigm of Chinese security perspective

Throughout history, Chinese international behavior suggests that security calculations have remained and continue to be an inherent force in the minds of Chinese foreign policy decision‐makers. Since China launched its open‐door policy in 1979, the way the Chinese think and assess the field has significantly changed. Today, the once widely supported realist approach is being rejected by a growing body of Chinese experts who now view the world as increasingly interdependent in both economic and security terms. This paper shows how the Chinese perspective on security issues has diversified and significantly transformed into a more interdependent viewpoint. Despite general skepticism over whether China has learned the inevitability of state sovereignty infringement in the globalization age, Chinese analysts came to understand and believe in the necessity of the security regime and multilateralism in the post‐Cold War period. The “new security concept” exemplified the development of the mutual security in the late 1990s. Whether the Chinese design based on the new idea will be realized is unclear, given the present security structure dominated by the U.S.‐alliance system. However, the new growing paradigm of the Chinese security perspective might play an important role in the process of building multilateral security institutions and regimes in the region, and participation and influence might be China's intention as a responsible regional power     

法国军事院校教育研究

从法军院校教育体制、人才培养模式、教学内容与院校传统入手,总结法军院校教育特点和发展趋势。     

军事理论课堂教学知识肤浅化的实证研究

重视和加强军事理论课课堂。教学的深度和广度,是军事理论课程改革的重要内容,它不仅关系到学科建设与发展,也关系到军事教师的课堂形象。目前,国内军事教学普遍存在知识肤浅化问题,本文就此现象展开了实证研究。     

军用装备CBM应用研究

本文在介绍CBM基本原理和应用关键技术的基础上，结合我军现行维修管理体制，采用总体目标驱动，分层逐步实施的思路，设计了军用装备CBM应用流程，明确了组织机构与人员分工，探讨了军用装备CBM应用流程的功能实现，为军用装备采用基于状态的维修方式建立基础，从而提高装备维修效率与效益。     

探究煤炭资源与中国经济发展的关系——基于计量经济模型的分析

煤炭资源是地球上蕴藏量最丰富、分布地域最广的化石燃料,对中国而言,也不例外。人们的生产生活都离不开煤炭资源,煤炭资源与中国经济发展息息相关。本文拟通过建立计量模型,分析国内生产总值与煤炭资源的生产、消费关系,得出煤炭资源与经济发展密不可分的关系。并由此,基于可持续发展理论、循环经济理论及工业生态学理论等理论对煤炭资源的低碳、可持续发展提出相应的建议。     

联勤公路运输与民用物流互利发展研究

为加快军地物流一体化进程，提高军事物流效率，节约成本，推动军地物流公路运输协调发展，阐述了军地物流合作的原则，提出了联勤部（分）队在公路军事运输方面应该遵循军民结合、寓军于民、协调发展的原则，加大非核心军事运输业务的外包力度，推动军地物流的融合式发展。     

预备役卫生动员技术体系的构成与构建

预备役卫生动员技术体系是一个以信息技术为主体,是涵盖需求预测、机制分析、决策支持、系统仿真等技术的综合体系。本文通过对预备役卫生动员特点的分析,阐述现代战争及突发事件对预备役卫生动员的要求,据此确定预备役卫生动员技术体系的总体构成,分析动员的支撑技术体系,提出逐渐完善预备役卫生动员技术体系的对策。     

军工企业库存实施VMI管理模式研究

供应商管理库存模式在电子、汽车等竞争行业已经有了广泛的应用,但在军工企业中的研究和应用较少。以军工企业为研究对象,对军工企业实施VMI管理模式进行了深入的探讨,对军工企业实施VMI有一定的现实意义。