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The Econometrics of Military Arms Races

This chapter reviews the econometric issues involved in estimating models of the competitive acquisition of military capability. Econometrics involves the synthesis of theory, data and statistical methods thus in reviewing the econometrics of arms races, we will pay as much attention to theory and data as we do to statistical methods. After discussing the choice of data and the theoretical issu...

Loading aircraft for military operations

In this paper, we describe an aircraft loading problem submitted by the French military agency (DGA) as part of a more general military airlift planning problem. It can be viewed as a kind of bi-dimensional bin-packing problem, with heterogeneous bins and several additional constraints. We introduce two-phase methods for solving this NP-hard problem. The first phase consists in building good in...

The Small Arms Industry

Small Arms in Kyrgyzstan

in November 2002. Police detained more than 100 protesters who demanded punishment of government officials responsible for the shooting deaths of five civilians in Aksy eight months earlier.

ii The Small Arms Survey

The Small Arms Survey occasional paper series presents new and substantial research findings by project staff and commissioned researchers on data, methodological, and conceptual issues related to small arms, or detailed country and regional case studies. The series is published periodically and is available in hard copy and on the project's web site. Contents About the author iv Acknowledgemen...