National and International Security

Taking the Helm: Richard Cheney at the Department of Defense

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

Wyoming Congressman Richard Cheney had long been a faithful supporter of Pentagon spending and new weapons systems. But when, in the wake of the failed nomination of Texas Senator John Tower, Cheney almost overnight finds himself appointed...

INF: The Second Zero

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

The 1987 intermediate nuclear forces treaty can be called the first true disarmament treaty of the nuclear age for having eliminated both short- and intermediate-range nuclear weapons from western Europe. This case examines the potential risks...

Framing a Response to Foreign-Inspired Terrorism: The Chirac Government's 1986 Reforms

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

When a wave of terrorist bombings strikes at the heart of Paris, the newly installed government of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac must balance hard-line campaign promises forswearing negotiations with terrorists groups against a growing need to...

Troubles in Lebanon (B)

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

These cases were written by Robert Murray, a member of the Tower Commission that examined the US policy in Lebanon during the early 1980s. Part A focuses on a September 1982 meeting of the National Security Council which considers a request from...

Troubles in Lebanon (A)

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

These cases were written by Robert Murray, a member of the Tower Commission that examined the US policy in Lebanon during the early 1980s. Part A focuses on a September 1982 meeting of the National Security Council which considers a request from...

The Lisbon Force Goals

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

Despite the ominous troop strength of the Soviet Union in post-war Europe, domestic political and economic factors precluded Western European nations from accepting a US plan to increase NATO troop levels. The stage was set for a Western...

F-14: After the Ink Was Dry

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

In 1969, the United States Navy signed a firm fixed price contract with Grumman Corporation for the development and production of the F-14 fighter plane. Within months after the contract was signed, however, Grumman began to signal the Navy that...

Terrorism in the Cour d'Assises: The US v. France v. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

The trial in France of Lebanese national Georges Abdallah, accused in the murder of an American diplomat, forces the US Justice Department to consider strategies aimed at ensuring conviction and a prison term while having to work through the...

SS-9 Controversy: Intelligence as Political Football

Publication Date: January 01, 1989

When Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird shocks the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with the view that a new Soviet missile will provide the USSR with a "first-strike" nuclear capability, the Central Intelligence Agency finds it must consider...

Managing for Competiveness: The Improved Microwave Landing System Avionics

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

This disguised case recounts, step by step, a small but representative competitive purchase by the US Air Force--the acquisition of an aircraft landing system by the Electronics Systems Division (ESD). The case traces the experiences of a novice...

The Reagan Administration and Lebanon

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

When Israel invaded Lebanon in June 1982, the United States became deeply involved: first by sending a special envoy to broker a withdrawal of PLO forces from Beirut (a withdrawal supervised in part by US marines); then by helping Christian...

Mast Bumping in Huey and Cobra Helicopters (Epilogue)

Publication Date: January 01, 1988

The Huey and Cobra US Army helicopters carried thousands of American soldiers during the war in Vietnam. Developed by the Bell Helicopter Company, they were, by and large, safe and reliable. But, both in combat and in peacetime use following...