ABSTRACT
The United States has given so much attention to the importance of advanced technology in shaping our national security strategy that it might almost be said that reliance on advanced technology for our national security is our strategy. Much of modern military technology is dual use in the sense that it relies on advances in materials and electronics that have application in both the military and civilian spheres, and those areas have become fundamentally important in both spheres. The reaction against the use of technology as an important part of the solution to problems was exacerbated by the growing dominance of economics and cost-effectiveness arguments in public affairs. The cost of a missile system, or a surveillance system, or a command and control system is on average a fifth to a seventh that of a new airplane or ship system.
