Boosting Military Spending? Les Mensuelles Ifri/Entreprises
A luncheon-debate with Étienne de DURAND, Senior research fellow, Director of the Security Studies Center.
Cécile CAMPAGNE, Assistant, Strategic Development Department, Ifri
campagne@ifri.org - Tel : +33 (0)1 40 61 60 21
Versatility and modularity have been praised as design imperatives for military hardware, in order to reduce costs as well as to facilitate training and maintenance.
The concept of Security Sector Reform (SSR) was developed during the 1990s as a response to several problems chiefly faced by countries in post-conflict transitions: weak new governments; conflicting civil-military relations; ill-defined division of tasks between the armed forces, the police,...