TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Theory and application to the us military
JO  - Defence and peace economics
A1  - Setter, Oren
A1  - Tishler, Asher
SP  - 133
EP  - 155
VL  - 18
IS  - 2
N2  - An ever-growing share of defence R&D expenditures is being dedicated to the development and fielding of integrative technologies  that enable separate individual systems to work in a coordinated and synergistic fashion as a single system. This study explores the optimal defence budget allocation to the development and acquisition of weapon systems and to the development of integrative technologies. We develop a suitable optimization framework, and then use it to derive the optimal budget allocation and analyse its properties. Finally, we use US defence budget data to calibrate the parameters of the model and provide a quantitative measure for the apparent US military supremacy.<p /> 
LA  - 
SN  - 1024-2694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242690600797273
ID  - ref1
ER  -