Defense Policymaking of a Third-Tier Country: Taiwan as a Case Study

Chu, Po-Young; Jan, Chiou Guey; Liu, Pei Leen

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“…After the end of the Cold War, however, the emergence of new suppliers and recipients led to the creation of more complex arms transfers between countries, resulting in a dissimilar standpoint. The increasing number of new participants, who were formerly entirely recipients, has contributed to transform a new landscape of arms transfers; scholars in the developing world began to apply a multiple perspective approach to better explain the complex behaviors of the recipients and suppliers [Jan (2003); Chu et al (2006)]. For such circumstances,¯rstly, identifying policy factors of their own and their counterparts is believed to help raise negotiation leverage in arms transfers.…”

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Assessment of Arms Import Policies Using a Hierarchical Decision Model and Expert Judgments: Case Study of South Korean Arms Procurement Organizations

Kim

Sheikh

Stokes

2019

Int. J. Innovation Technol. Management

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Arms import decisions have a significant impact on certain nations. Priorities based on diverse policies are a major cause of conflict and dissent among policy decision makers and practitioners. This is because there are many competing qualitative and quantitative decision elements from varying perspectives. Hence, it has been difficult to compare them and rank their contributions to the final decision. Instead, a common approach has been to make decisions reacting to the situation at hand and on a case by case basis. Another approach is to use a rational decision model and expert judgments to assess arms import policies. For this, a hierarchical decision model (HDM) is used to identify the decision elements. Once a model framework is established many aspects of the results can be studied. In this research, a decision model based on technology, economics, politics, industry, and military (TEPIM) perspectives is developed for assessment of arms import policies. The case of the Republic of Korea is considered. The perspectives and their composite criteria are then ranked using the consensus of panels of experts and decision makers. An important aspect of expert judgment consensus is the management and analysis of disagreements. This study includes hierarchical cluster analyses and MANOVA of the disagreements between the decision makers and practitioners. We have confirmed that the stakeholder arms procurement organizations are guided by their organizational mission and this has an impact on their policy priorities and hence can result in disagreements.

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Assessment of Arms Import Policies Using a Hierarchical Decision Model and Expert Judgments: Case Study of South Korean Arms Procurement Organizations

Kim

Sheikh

Stokes

2019

Int. J. Innovation Technol. Management

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“…Since then it has been applied to defense management, such as the management of aircraft survivability (Benyamin, 1984), the creation of a feedback perspective for army situation and provision of insights into defense problems (Wolstenholme, 1988), the description of submarine operations as well as naval maintenance schedules and aircraft carrier survivability (Coyle and Paul, 1991;Coyle, 1992). It has also been applied to the development of a rapid assessment method for AirLand conflicts in Europe (Moffat, 1996), the development of weapon systems in developing countries (Jan and Jan, 2000), the use of influence diagrams that link the intuitive measures for land force actions with friendly and threat force actions (Curtis and Dortmans, 2004), and defense policymaking of a third-tier country, namely Taiwan, ROC (Chu et al, 2006). In 2008, Michael and Richard developed a System Dynamics model based on basic Lanchester's equations to present the aspects of combat (Michael and Richard, 2008).…”

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A System Dynamics Model for Modern AirLand Battle

Liu

Sun

You

2014

Asia Pac. J. Oper. Res.

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The Lanchester Model has been widely used to explain the main features of the battle. However, its application to actual cases seems to be limited. The purpose of this study is to attempt to extend the Lanchester Model with the System Dynamics approach in order to better suit the real modern AirLand Battle case. To demonstrate how the AirLand Battle System Dynamics model works and how it provides easier ways to account for variables, normally present in real combat situations, three common tactical scenarios are employed for simulation. The results indicate that the developed model can fully describe AirLand Battle and reflect the synergy that results from the interaction of strategies and force redeployment. The proposed model, in addition, allows users to easily adjust settings when simulating different scenarios.

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Policy implications for third-tier countries considering ACTD programs: South Korea as a case study

Kim

2015

Technology in Society

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Defense Policymaking of a Third-Tier Country: Taiwan as a Case Study

Cited by 6 publications

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Assessment of Arms Import Policies Using a Hierarchical Decision Model and Expert Judgments: Case Study of South Korean Arms Procurement Organizations

Assessment of Arms Import Policies Using a Hierarchical Decision Model and Expert Judgments: Case Study of South Korean Arms Procurement Organizations

A System Dynamics Model for Modern AirLand Battle

Policy implications for third-tier countries considering ACTD programs: South Korea as a case study

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