FEASIBILITY OF DEFENSE AUTARKY: COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES OF TURKEY, IRAN, AND UKRAINE.
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Authors
Kvamladze, Tato
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defense autarky
self-sufficient defense industry
Turkish
Iranian
Ukrainian Defense Industries
defense industrial bases
DIBs
R&D
self-sufficient defense industry
Turkish
Iranian
Ukrainian Defense Industries
defense industrial bases
DIBs
R&D
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Tsypkin, Mikhail
Mortlock, Robert F.
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2020-06
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Since the end of the Cold War, the development of advanced military technologies has affected arms production by creating new demands for modern weapons that are more effective but also expensive. This project explores the impact of the arms trade on the defense industrial bases (DIBs). Within the framework of this project, I examined the importance of the international arms transfer, military expenditure, and cooperation with partner countries. Achieving a defense autarky depends on many factors, but these are most important: the share of the defense budget used for military R&D and weapons procurement, and the diversification of product lines for domestic and international markets. With the aim of achieving defense autarky, states should reduce their dependency on foreign suppliers and seek technology transfer and cooperation to boost indigenous production capacity. Through comparative case studies, this project analyzed attempts to develop self-sufficient DIBs in Turkey, Iran, and Ukraine. Each study provided a review of the factors that influenced these attempts, including procurement and maintenance of armories, distribution of defense spending by categories, arms exports and imports, defense-industrial policies, and defense markets with key stakeholders. Using this analysis, I provided key policy recommendations for the development of a self-sufficient DIB in Georgia, which is at a crossroads in this field.
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