Introduction : Pentagon reform in comparative and historical perspective / Robert J. Art --

Part I : Defense organization at home and abroad --

Defense policymaking in the Soviet Union / Edward L. Warner III --

Civilian and military influence in managing the arms race in the U.S.S.R. / Stephen M. Meyer --

Central defense organization in the United Kingdom / Michael Hobkirk --

Defense organization in Germany : a twice told tale / Catherine McArdle Kelleher --

Military organizations and policymaking in Israel / Aharon Yariv --

The dynamics of Israeli national security decisionmaking / Amos Perlmutter --

Changes in Canada's organization for defense, 1963-1983 / W. Harriet Critchley --

The evolution of central U.S. defense management / Vincent Davis --

The wars within : the Joint Military Structure and its critics / William J. Lynn --

Part II : Defense reform in the United States --

Strategymaking in the Pentagon / Robert W. Komer --

Organization and strategy / Samuel P. Huntington --

The Office of the Secretray of Defense / James Schlesinger --

The JCS

views of participants /

Chairman's special study group --

The U.S. military chain of command

present and future /

William Y. Smith --

Comments on Smith's proposal / David C. Jones, Edward C. Meyer III, and Thor Hanson --

Rewriting the Key West accord / Morton H. Halperin and David Halperin --

Resource allocation in the Pentagon / Vincent Puritano --

A critique of the PPB system / Philip Odeen --

How to improve the acquisition of weapons / Jacques S. Gansler --

Congress and the defense budget : enhancing policy oversight / Robert J. Art.