Strategic and Budgetary Necessity, or Decision-making ‘Along the Grain’? The Royal Navy and the 1981 Defence Review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11634668 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Hampshire (King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 956-978 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Strategic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2390 • E-ISSN: 1743-937X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402390.2016.1220365 |
| OpenAlex | W2510920818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
The 1981 Defence Review undertaken by John Nott as Secretary of State for Defence controversially and dramatically cut the capabilities of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet. Many of those involved in these decisions have emphasised the budgetary and politico-strategic drivers for these reductions in capability, and the first generation of academic analysis has broadly followed this position. However, recently released government and private archival sources demonstrate that Nott’s review was initially much more severe than thought, and that this was due as much to the presumptions and assumptions of the key decision makers as to any strategic or budgetary factors
Business · Economics · Government (linguistics · Management · Navy · Operations research · Political science · Position (finance · State (computer science · Computer Science · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies · Engineering · Finance · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |