Showing papers on "National security published in 1973"

The Inter-War Years

Abstract: The First World War had a profound influence upon British society, for quite simply it swept away a whole world and created a new one. Things would never be quite the same and the Edwardian epoch became a vision of the distant past as though a great chasm separated 1918 from 1914. This war was in fact the greatest watershed of modern British history. However, the effects of total war in the twentieth century have been as much concerned with accelerating as with diverting the course of social policy. In very significant ways the stress of fighting the First World War accentuated developments which were already discernible in the prewar years. The crucial developments in the much-expanded role of the state paralleled themes of the Edwardian age in two important respects. First, the greatest single stimulus to the enlargement of the function of the state was national defence. As we shall see, the quest for national security in the war effort caused the state to traverse fields very remote from military strategy. This was in effect a massive extension of the whole national efficiency movement of the early years of the century. Then, prospective fears for national efficiency motivated much pre-war social policy; now, the practical needs of self-defence dictated a greater amount of state intervention, what the Manchester Guardian called ‘War Socialism’.

National suicide: military aid to the Soviet Union

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Military Research and Development: Implications for the Civil Sector

Abstract: Military research and development ( R & D ) , whatever its national security contribution, allegedly imposes substantial opportunity costs on the civil sector. A factual analysis does not support the view that military R & D has recently been or in the future will be a dominant reason: for funding and manpower shortages in civilian R & D, for the lack of technological supremacy in American industry, for the lack of technological solutions to major problems of domestic society, or for the emphasis on externally funded research in U.S. colleges and universities. Instead, financial trends suggest that an absence of demand for R&D in the civil sector and multiple funding opportunities for research in academic institutions are and will be more important causes of these problems. Military R & D can also provide learning for civil sector R&D. The experience of the Defense policy analysis organizations is particularly pertinent. It suggests that such organizations will be of continuing value to the civil sector t...

The National Security Implications of Multinational Corporations

Abstract: : The basic problem is the identification and assessment of factors pertinent to the multinational corporation (MNC) which may influence the national security of the US over the next few years. Literature search constitutes the principal technique for data and information collection. Major factors and trends that identify the explosive growth of the multinational have been examined.

The Limitation of Naval General Purpose Forces in Historical Perspective

Abstract: : This study reviews the naval arms limitations conferences and proposals since the Hague Conference of 1899 and points out the pitfalls which can result from being too willing to negotiate in search of accommodation or peace without due regard for both political and strategic factors. This study also looks at the newly emerging multipolar world and how the Nixon Doctrine has affected these new power centers and created a need for armaments rather than reductions in armaments. The perceived need for security by these emergent powers has led them to turn to the sea and acquire sizable navies throughout the world to protect their national interests and sea lines of communication. This naval build-up could very well trigger a naval arms race and lead to naval arms limitations negotiations, at least regionally. Lastly, this study discusses historic and geographic factors which have caused the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, to build large navies. The study further compares the probable aims of these two powers in possible future naval limitations negotations from the standpoint the needs of a land power versus a sea power.

Quantitative Methods for Long-Range Environmental Forecasting

Abstract: : The work is concerned with the development of a model that examines interactive effects among five central environmental descriptors: international conflict, international alignment, economic interdependence, internal instability, and national power base. The overall purpose of the model is to acquaint national security analysts with modern long-range forecasting techniques and to provide a long-range forecast of Europe (1985-1994) using the aforementioned descriptors.

Political Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment

Abstract: The United States District Court case has left the scope of the warrant protection of the fourth amendment considerably clearer and broader. The door left ajar in Katz has been firmly fastened shut by the Court leaving only the traditional exceptions to the warrant requirement, which are based upon practical necessity, and the still unconfronted question of the power of the executive to conduct warrantless surveillances of foreign agents in national security cases." It is also clear that courts are no less competent to evaluate the appropriateness of a search and seizure in an internal security case than in a case of "ordinary" crime. In fact, judicial scrutiny is all the more essential because of the presence of first amendment considerations. But most significant is the fact that the government's attempt to revitalize the general warrant in the guise of national security has been decisively thwarted. No more will the incantation of the mystical phrase "national security" shield the government from the necessity of obtaining a warrant. Political surveillance, like an orthodox search and seizure, requires the full protection of the fourth amendment, if not a fuller protection bolstered by the first amendment. The task of implementing the right to be free from government surveillance will in the long run prove to be more difficult than was the task of establishing the right. Even if the extremely difficult barrier to the implementation of remedies for illegal surveillance can be overcome-that is, discovery of the existence of the surveillance-criminal penalties and monetary awards can never truly compensate the individual for the loss of dignity suffered as a consequence of a surreptitious invasion of privacy. And as long as the detection of surveillance faces grave technological and legal obstacles, there may be little effective deterrent to the use of illegal surveillance. In the final analysis, therefore, the application of the warrant requirement to political surveillance-as in all other forms of search and seizure for which it is required"' - necessitates the same kind of voluntary and good faith compliance by governmental officials with constitutionally sanctioned procedures as do all other instances of the implementation of fundamental rights of the individual. Sadly, the events of recent years and months indicate the paucity of bona fides among our elected officials and their appointed assistants.

Representatives' Constituency and National Security

Abstract: T HE NATIONAL security of a nation state is a primary concern of the policymakers; if they are not successful in this area, then the other policy decisions may be irrelevant. Traditionally the security of the United States has been primarily the responsibility of the President as commander-in-chief of the armed forces and director of foreign policy; for national security policy was basically military policy. Congress was not charged with, nor did it assume, a very large role in the area of national security policy; what division of power there was between the President and Congress was a lopsided one with the President getting the lion's share of the power.' In the post-World War II period, Congress generally and the House of Representatives specifically have become much more involved in this policy area.2 Since the end of World War II Congress "was almost constantly occupied with substantive issues of military policy."" Congress is now so deeply involved that it has become part of the larger problem of civil-military relations. This congressional involvement may be direct such as limiting the use of troops in Cambodia, or attaching conditions on the use of foreign aid monies; or it may be more indirect in such areas as internal security programs and regulating the use of atomic energy. In playing this new and enlarged role in the area of national security policy, Congress is assuming a position which was envisioned for it by the framers of the Constitution.4 Not only has the role of Congress changed in the post-World War II period but the concept of national security policy and what should be included in any discussion of national security has also changed. The nature of this expanded issue area of national security policy is somewhat unclear. A great deal of government activity from highway construction to aid to education has been passed by Congress under the banner of providing for the nation's security. A definition of national security which is all-inclusive is of little value operationally; on the other hand, from a review of the literature it seems clear that most observers include more than just military policy when discussing national security. There are no universally accepted

Whither American Liberties in the Bicentennial Decade

Abstract: Associate Justice William O. Douglas, ardent mountain climber, libertarian and judicial activist, flatly asserted in June 1972: "We are currently in the throes of another national seizure of paranoia, resembling the hysteria which surrounded the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Palmer Raids and the McCarthy era. Those who register dissent or who petition their governments for redress are subjected to scrutiny by grand juries, by the F.B.I., and even by the military. Their associates are interrogated. Their homes are bugged and their telephones wiretapped." To Douglas, then, "We have as much or more to fear from the erosion of our sense of privacy and independence by ... Government as we do from the likelihood that fomenters of domestic upheaval will modify our form of governing."1 The challenge is clear. Demands for order and security are threatening to snuff out individual freedom in the bicentennial decade of that freedom. Not everyone would agree with Douglas that we are facing the kind of pervasive and deadly threat to our liberties that faced Americans in the eras of the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Palmer Raids, and Joseph McCarthy. Those were periods of severe external threats, real or perceived, to American national security. But even in the present context of reduced international tensions, there are some repressive straws in the winds. The most visible one today relates to freedom of the press and whether newsmen's sources of information are to be protected. But then there have always been straws in the winds. Perhaps they have not been found at the highly visible national level; more likely they have been floating around at the state and local levels. There is nothing like a little grass roots democracy for enforced conformity to local norms of behavior. This factor has been of some importance to nonconformists starting with Roger Williams in John Cotton's Massachusetts Bay theocracy. The question today as it was yesterday and the day before is: If liberties are threatened by the actions of government officials, by