- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Comerford & Miller (8 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1871204097
- ISBN-13: 978-1871204094
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14.8 x 1.4 cm
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- #64 in Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Warfare & Defence > Arms Industry > Arms Trade
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This look at the arms business shows how Britain developed weapons that did not work to confront an enemy that no longer existed. It contains interviews with arms manufacturers and dealers, and an exposure of the way national leaders are bribed to order arms.
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How to transform the arms industry, 4 Aug 2001
By William Podmore - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Armour-plated Ostrich: Cost of Britain's Addictions to the Arms Business (Radical Writing) (Hardcover)
Tim Webb has been Assistant General Secretary of MSF, dealing with the main defence companies, especially in aeronautics and electronics. His inspiring book suggests how we can transform our defence industry.The National Economic Development Office rejected the idea that `the market' would advance the British defence industry, because the US defence industry, massively Government-supported, was so dominant. It warned in its 1983 Report, Civil Exploitation of Defence Technology, that Britain might "become a technological colony of large offshore companies who will determine what products are made where and when." Thatcher ignored the warnings: free market economics took precedence over jobs and the national interest. So we now have massive annual deficits in the key area of electronics, among others.
Britain's military budget for 1998-99 was £22.24 billion. By contrast, a district general hospital costs around £90 million, a comprehensive school for a thousand children nine million pounds. Military spending does not produce automatic benefits: our high military spending has not brought high productivity growth in manufacturing industry.
Successive Governments have proposed saving jobs in the defence industry by increasing arms exports. People rightly question the wisdom of peddling implements of mass destruction to dictatorial regimes abroad. Instead, the industry's 400,000 workers should be making their own plans for their industry's future, shifting their skills to producing for the home market modern reliable technology in every aspect of modern life. Defence workers can then produce goods for the telecommunications industry, public transport and civil aviation. They can get into environmental engineering, producing for example pollution monitoring equipment and power sources designed to reduce pollution.
Workers can redirect into civil production the scarce resources of engineering skills, much of that £22.24 billion budget, and the Government's military R&D spending. A strengthened Defence Diversification Agency with executive powers can assist the formation of new industries. New industries will create new jobs and generate new skills.
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