Military Industry and Regional Defense

Military Industry and Regional Defense Policyre-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on Israel and the impact of security perceptions on policy-making. Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international relations, and recent historical studies of international technology and arms transfers. Looking at Israel, Iraq and India, the three most powerful regional powers in the Cold War era, he presents an expert analysis of the three-sided phenomena of the regional hegemony, the regional competitor and the small over-achiever. This new book breaks away from existing literature on military industries in the developing world, which has focused on their economic and development costs and benefits. These past studies have used primitive methodologies that focus on the production of complete weapons systems - a misleading gauge in a world of growing international defense cooperation. They have also ignored empirical evidence of theimpact of local military industrial production on Cold War regional conflict, and of the defense planning and concerns that drove development of indigenous military industries in key regional powers. This new text delivers an incisive new perspective.

Timothy D. Hoyt is Professor of Strategy and Policy at the US Naval War College.

Acknowledgments	p. xii
List of abbreviations and acronyms	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Military industry in the developing world	p. 2
The developing world: some structural considerations
Regional powers
LDC arms procurement
LDCs and the international arms trade
The study of LDC arms industries: analytical frameworks	p. 7
Structuralist/dependency approach
Economic/development approach
Dominance/world system approach
Systemic/historical approach
Existing frameworks: the missing variable
Methods of analysis	p. 17
India	p. 22
Background	p. 22
Indian security perception
Military-industrial policy
Structure of the Indian defense industry
Nehru and the age of idealism: 1947-62	p. 28
Selected indigenous arms programs, 1948-62
The age of realism: 1963-74	p. 33
Selected indigenous arms programs: 1962-74
Hegemony unfulfilled: 1974-98	p. 39
Selected indigenous arms programs: 1974-98
1998-2005: New threats and opportunities	p. 56
Conclusion	p. 61
Israel	p. 67
Background	p. 67
Israeli security perceptions
The structure of the Israeli defense industry
The pre-state period: 1920-48	p. 74
Development of military industrial infrastructure: 1948-67	p. 75
Selected indigenous arms programs: 1948-67
The boom years: 1968-73	p. 83
Selected indigenous arms programs: 1967-73
Overextension and decline: 1973-95	p. 91
Selected indigenous arms programs: 1973-95
Managing security in an uncertain world: 1995-2005	p. 105
Israeli military-industrial requirements	p. 106
The future: niche production or military-industrial and strategic dysfunction?
Iraq	p. 115
Background	p. 115
Iraq's security perception
Iraq's military-industrial base
Embargo, diversification, and war: 1974-84	p. 124
Selected indigenous arms programs, 1974-84
Pragmatism and victory: 1984-90	p. 129
Selected indigenous arms programs, 1984-90
The 1990s: what might the industry have looked like?	p. 138
The enduring puzzle: Iraq's strategic weapons	p. 143
Ballistic missiles
Chemical weapons
Biological weapons
Nuclear weapons
Why we don't know - continuing gaps
Conclusion	p. 158
Regional powers, security, and arms production: conclusions	p. 163
Case studies: patterns and trends	p. 164
India
Israel
Iraq
Lessons learned: security and military industry	p. 170
A security-based model of LDC arms production	p. 171
Sustenance requirements
Quality maintenance
Ability to produce systems not available from other suppliers
Production of regional-specific weaponry and niche production
Regional powers and military industry in the evolving international system	p. 179
Notes	p. 187
Select bibliography	p. 268
Index	p. 283
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