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Defence Acquisition Reform and the British Condition: Promises, Betrayal, and Resignation

Defence Acquisition Reform and the British Condition: Promises, Betrayal, and Resignation
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Author(s): John Louth (Royal United Services Institute, UK)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 18
Source title: Emerging Strategies in Defense Acquisitions and Military Procurement
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kevin Burgess (Cranfield University, UK)and Peter Antill (Cranfield University, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0599-0.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter considers the defence acquisition change agenda in the United Kingdom from 1997 onwards. The work considers the organisations, practices and values of smart acquisition and discusses those forces that championed its implementation. Taking a critical stance, it positions the change discourse as a broader case study of the wider western narrative of defence. The chapter considers smart acquisition as a vehcle of this change which, ultimately, presents as a circular and ineffective activity.

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