TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - Military manpower: Strategic asset, liability or non-entity?
JO  - Defence economics
A1  - Downes, Ciara
SP  - 353
EP  - 363
VL  - 2
IS  - 4
N2  - Military manpower has not been a feature of contemporary national security and Defence and Peace Economics thinking. At best, it is treated as a problem to be avoided. A number of the reasons for this circumstance are distilled, including many outdated preconceptions and overtaxed assumptions about military manpower. The article then addresses the overlooked characteristics of manpower which constitutes a crucial input to national security and defence economic debates. The article concludes that the time is ripe to “bring military manpower back into the loop” of defence decision-making; that manpower is a variable of equal standing to weaponry, international relations, force structure budgets, etc. in strategic thought and analysis.<p /> 
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SN  - 1043-0717
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10430719108404708
ID  - ref1
ER  -