Anti-Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile Effort: An Analysis of a Close Encounter with Bureaucratic Politics.

摘要

This case study briefly recounts the Air Force's successful campaign to derail the perceived threat to its organizational raison d'etre posed by (Army owned and operated) Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missiles (ATBMs) and the Tactical Ballistic Missiles (TBMs) that ATBMs are designed to counter. From the Fall of 1986 until the Summer of 1989, the author was a witness/protagonist in a power struggle among the Air Force, Army, USEUCOM, JCS, OSD, NATO, and key U.S. allies over the implications of ATBMs end TBMs in the European theater. The meteoric rise/demise of the NATO ATBN project is a classic example of bureaucratic politics at work in the domestic/international 'military- industrial complex,' and it provides useful insights into players, positions, and processes in European defense politics.