MIL-STD-188

Abstract: : Partial Contents: Defense Policy: National Security Concerns and Defense Policy Priorities, Collective Security; Defense Resources: Budget, Strengthening Defense Management, Personnel (Manpower and Health), Industrial Base, Environment; Defense Components: Nuclear Forces and Strategic Defense, Land Forces, Naval Forces, Tactical Air Forces, Space Forces, Mobility Forces, Special Operations Forces, Counterdrug Forces, Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation.

Abstract: This study examines how defense institutions and personnel are formally organized in Latin America. In a region long plagued by praetorian armies, it is especially important that organizational designs ensure that civilians maintain institutional control over armed forces. For this to occur, it is argued that those designs must incorporate certain principles: (a) enhance the civilian presence in key defense institutions, (b) empower defense ministries, (c) lower the military's vertical authority along the chain of command, and (d) unify civilian power while dividing military power. Based on an examination of legal documents and other data for sixteen Latin American democracies, findings show three general organizational patterns: an ideal—typical defense structure that achieves all four objectives, a second best defense structure that still leaves too much military power unified, and a dual command structure that is least desirable for weakening the defense ministry while coalescing military might high up...

Abstract: : Having inherited the defense structure that won the Cold War and Desert Storm, the Clinton Administration intends to leave as its legacy a defense strategy, a military, and a Defense Department that have been transformed to meet the new challenges of a new century. Our strategy will ensure that America continues to lead a world of accelerating change by shaping the emerging security environment to reduce threats and to promote our interests and by responding to crises that threaten our interests. We will execute the strategy with superior military forces that fully exploit advances in technology by employing new operational concepts and organizational structures. And we will support our forces with a Department that is as lean, agile, and focused as our warfighters. Toward this end, the Department of Defense last year conducted perhaps the most fundamental and comprehensive review ever conducted of defense posture, policy, and programs. The Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) examined the national security threats, risks, and opportunities facing the United States today and out to 2015. Based on this analysis, we designed a defense strategy to implement the defense requirements of the President's National Security Strategy for a New Century.