ABSTRACT
During the period between the Yom Kippur War and the Peace for Galilee War the inputs invested in the buildup of the military force grew by several orders of magnitude. Immediately after the Yom Kippur War, a quantum leap in defense expenditures occurred. In 1960, generous US security assistance—which was initially given as a loan and changed to a grant in 1984—1985—was added to the local resources invested in defense. Thus, the link between the volume of inputs used to build and maintain the force and the tactical output achieved in wartime was evidently lost during the period under review. Tremendous inputs were invested between the wars, and especially after the wars, to build, train, maintain, and cultivate the military force. The massive investment of economic resources in the buildup of a military force during the 1970s produced a definite quantitative increase. Defense expenditure is defined as the sum total of local economic resources directed to local security consumption.
