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NATO defense spending in 2023 : implications one year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Dorn, Florian; Potrafke, Niklas; Schlepper, Marcel - 2023
War is raging close to NATO's Eastern border. Russia has attacked Ukraine and threatens those states that in the past … had been part of Moscow's sphere of influence. Many of them are now member states of NATO. As a collective defense … alliance, this poses a threat to all NATO members. Since the ability to defend against an aggressor does not come for free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014308782
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The causal effects of World War II military service
Cousley, Alex; Siminski, Peter; Ville, Simon P. - 2016
The effects of military service have been studied for decades, but surprisingly few studies have estimated the effects of World War II (WW2) service, where the focus has been on the impact of this 'total war' on the broader civilian population. Over 90% of Australian males born in the early...
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Growing up in the Iran-Iraq war and preferences for strong defense
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour - 2019
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of individuals' memories of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) during early adulthood (18-25 years) on their preference for strong national defense forces and their willingness to fight for Iran (in the event of another war). Using the World Value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977948
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Cyber technology and arms race
Kanniainen, Vesa - 2017
Cyber technology represents digital military capability with the purpose of causing damage to the military strength and the social infrastructure of a potential enemy. War using conventional weapons may be preceded by or combined with a war using cyber technology. This paper introduces such...
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Reducing risks in wartime through capital-labor substitution : evidence from World War II
Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2015
Our research uses data from multiple archival sources to examine substitution among armored (tank-intensive), infantry (troop-intensive), and airborne (also troop-intensive) military units, as well as mid-war reorganizations of each type, to estimate the marginal cost of reducing U.S. fatalities...
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Military Economy and the Military Reform in Russia in 2009
Zatsepin, Vasily - 2015
This paper deals with a wide choice of issues related to Russia's military-industrial complex, defence policy and military procurements in 2009. The year of 2009 saw an unprecedented acceleration of the genuine military reform. This can be ascribed first to the fact that in the wake of the war...
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Military Economy and the Military Reform in Russia in 2010
Zatsepin, Vasily - 2015
This paper deals with a wide choice of issues related to the Russian defense budget, defense policy, military procurements, etc. From the financial perspective, the year of 2010 started with a unusually early (of 12/04/2009) notification of the national military organization's chief controllers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036386
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Long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service : a quasi-experiment using Australian conscription lotteries
Johnston, David; Shields, Michael; Siminski, Peter - 2015
This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use several administrative sources, containing a near-universe of...
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The Budgets of Wars : Analysis of the U.S. Defense Stocks in the Post-Cold War Era
Gurdgiev, Constantin - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901821
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Volunteer Militaries, the Draft, and Support for War
Warren, Patrick L. - 2010
This paper models how a nation's military manpower procurement system affects popular support for war and political choices regarding war. When citizens have idiosyncratic benefits from war and costs from serving, I characterize when a volunteer military maximizes support, and when a mixture of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195262