Unilateral National Defence Organisations: An Economic Analysis of Non-economic Structures

Abstract

The ‘war industry’ is that segment of economic structures and activities which produces what is purchased with military expenditures, mainly out of nation-states’ military budgets. Unilateral National Defence Organisations (UNDOs) are those departments within governments that organise the war industry. We may add terrorist organisations (soldiers without governments) to this list.

In the preparation of this paper, I was greatly assisted by the ideas and data contained in the recent unpublished manuscript entitled, ‘The Nation Is Secure: Lessons From Stable Competition and Inherent National Security’ by G. Shepherd and B. Shepherd of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.