This paper attempts to concisely detail the evolution of Britain's post-war defense posture. Dividing it into six phases between 1945 and 1979 its emphasis is on the trends with regard to defense spending as a share of GDP, the manning of the forces, their mission and deployment internationally,...

This paper, based on the author's prior work, endeavors to condense into a brief, succinct discussion of the resourcing of Britain's military position, discussed here as "semi-superpower status," in the 1945-1971 period

This working paper takes up the subject of the highly publicized announcements of the German and Japanese governments of sharply increasing their defense spending and puts it into context. In particular it considers1. The longer history of Germany and Japan's movement away from their post-World...

This working paper considers the global redistribution of economic power and defense spending between the 1990s and 2020s--with a focus on the U.S., China and Russia--on the basis of World Bank data, and its implications for the military balance today

The importance of U.S. military expenditure as an economic stimulus, particularly between the 1940s and the 1970s, is well-established in economic historiography, if often treated casually. This note offers a qualitative consideration of its global consequence by considering U.S. defense...