Simple Models Suggest Answers to Complex Questions Do We Need Satellite Surveillance for Land Warfare? A Lancastrian View

Saperstein Al
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Saperstein Al: Union of Concerned Scientists and Wayne State University

Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2001, vol. 8, issue 1, 11

Abstract: This technical working paper presents a model suggesting that the development of a satellite military system, when once in place, would not be more efficient in terms of required military expenditures of the U.S. than a land-based military operation (system). Hence, if not basically modified to incorporate suggestions for change, the model indicates that the large requirements for development expenditures on a satellite military system would be a clear waste of funds for a technologically superior nation such as U.S. is currently. These funds could be more usefully spent to develop a more effective means to police the global system.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.2202/1554-8597.1052

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