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MENAUL 5/4/1-108 Papers relating to defence strategy and the arms industry, 1967-1984

MENAUL: 5/4/1 1976 Mar 22

British Aircraft Corporation news release: 'Another multi-million pound air defence export contract' and 'Oman buys BAC products'.

MENAUL: 5/4/2 1976 Jan

Army: Foreign arms sales: 2 sides to the coin'.

MENAUL: 5/4/3 1975 Dec 22

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Export drive aims to offset inflation'.

MENAUL: 5/4/4 1976 Feb 23

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Payoffs cloud export prospects' and 'UK exports rise'.

MENAUL: 5/4/5 1976 May 3

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'MRCA (Multi-Role Combat Aircraft) marketing possibilities explored'.

MENAUL: 5/4/6 1975 Dec 22

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Industry seeks time to integrate effort' and manuscript note on attack helicopter procurement.

MENAUL: 5/4/7 1975 Aug 4

Aviation Week and Space Technology editorial: 'Rationale for military exports'.

MENAUL: 5/4/8 [1974-1982]

Paper: 'Defence policy and arms sales', relating to arguments for and against arms sales.

MENAUL: 5/4/9 1982 Dec

Armed Forces Journal International: 'Has NATO C3I gone haywire?'; 'NATO C3I: the problem of security'; '"Tapping" off-the-shelf computers to enhance theatre targeting skills'; 'NATO C3I: the problem of nuclear war'; 'Budgeting for C3/EW/I: US outdistancing NATO allies?' and 'No NATO C3I "check-out counter"'.

MENAUL: 5/4/10 1979 Feb 19

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Mitre guides defense C3 revolution'.

MENAUL: 5/4/11 1982 Nov

Armed Forces Journal International: 'NATO's new strategy: defend forward, but strike deep'; '"Electronic cameras" with instantaneous ground read-out now make real-time, precision tactical targeting operationally feasible' and 'They're moving under a multi-special microscope'. 2 copies

MENAUL: 5/4/12 1982 Nov 30

Copy of letter from B Rogers, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, to B Schemmer, editor of Armed Forces Journal: an article relating to 'Deepstrike'.

MENAUL: 5/4/13 1975 Sep 8

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Current systems still more cost-effective'.

MENAUL: 5/4/14 1976 Nov 15

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Defense budget to spur clash' and 'Inflation boosts B-1 unit cost'.

MENAUL: 5/4/15 1975 Mar 3

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'DoD (US Dept of Defense) sets strong Research & Development funding defense'.

MENAUL: 5/4/16 1975 Apr 28

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Continued Minuteman 3 output asked' and Washington Roundup section: 'Defense cuts'.

MENAUL: 5/4/17 [1980]

Manuscript note on effects of inflation on the costs of defence equipment.

MENAUL: 5/4/18 [1976]

Manuscript notes on defence.

MENAUL: 5/4/19 1980 Jun 23

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'US seeking better command control survivability'.

MENAUL: 5/4/20 1985-1986

International Institute for Strategic Studies: 'Strategic survey, 1985-1986'.

MENAUL: 5/4/21 1982 Nov

American Security Council - Washington Report: 'Better weapons in less time for less money'.

MENAUL: 5/4/22 1984 Mar 1

Wall Street Journal: 'Reforming the military-reform push'.

MENAUL: 5/4/23 [1984-1985]

Defence Today: 'Command and control of NATO forces along the front line in Europe'.

MENAUL: 5/4/24 1984 Sep 13

Heritage Foundation Backgrounder: 'Air defense: protecting American's skies'.

MENAUL: 5/4/25 [1980-1987]

Paper by Menaul: 'Strategy of air defence command and control'. 2 copies

MENAUL: 5/4/26 1982 Feb 15

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Defense plans spur purchases, research'; 'USAF presses strategic modernization programs'; 'Army request reflects growth, evolution toward new division' and 'Emphasis in navy budget shifts toward expansion'.

MENAUL: 5/4/27 1982 Jan-Feb

Defence: 'C3 - what does NATO want?'

MENAUL: 5/4/28 1982 Feb 22

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Defense research requests rise 14%'; 'Fiscal 1983 major weapons systems spending detailed by service' and 'Livermore Laboratory to boost research on nuclear weapons'.

MENAUL: 5/4/29 1977 Aug 29

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Force management key to effectiveness' and 'Germans weighing alternative Patriot acquisition techniques'.

MENAUL: 5/4/30 1977 Aug 29

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Fund curb hits Pentagon plans' and Washington Roundup section: 'Soviet SALT view'.

MENAUL: 5/4/31 1977 Aug 15

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Recess delays defense actions'.

MENAUL: 5/4/32 1976 Mar

Air Force Magazine: 'Affordability and performance: USAF's Research & Development goal'.

MENAUL: 5/4/33 1975 Sep 1

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Investigative agency impact rises'.

MENAUL: 5/4/34 1976 Mar

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Foreign Affairs Study 29: 'The strategic balance in the Mediterranean'.

MENAUL: 5/4/35 1984 Dec 28

The Times editorial: 'Defence and deterrence'.

MENAUL: 5/4/36 [1978 Sep]

The Times Letter to editor: 'Cautious approach to active defence' from Lord Chalfont.

MENAUL: 5/4/37 1983 Sep 25

Sunday Times letters to editor: 'The price of Panjandrum'.

MENAUL: 5/4/38 [1983]

Manuscript note on 'The second echelon - problems'.

MENAUL: 5/4/39 [1982-1983]

Manuscript note on defence expenditure.

MENAUL: 5/4/40 [1973]

Royal United Services Institute/Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Research Centre Bulletin: 'Adm S G Gorshkov's views on seapower' by P H Vigor.

MENAUL: 5/4/41 1975 Mar-Apr

Survival: 'Admiral Gorshkov's "navies in war and peace"'.

MENAUL: 5/4/42 1974 Jan

US Naval Institute Proceedings: 'Navies in war and peace' by AF of the Soviet Union, S G Gorshkov.

MENAUL: 5/4/43 1979 Nov

Centre for International and Strategic Affairs, University of California, Amphibious Command Information System research notes: 'The forward defense of Europe' by John C F Tillson.

MENAUL: 5/4/44 1972 Nov 30

Text of lecture: 'All-regular forces' by J Peters.

MENAUL: 5/4/45 [1970]

Magazine article: 'Soviet naval procurement' by M McGwire.

MENAUL: 5/4/46 [1970]

Lecture synopsis: 'Soviet procurement policy since world war II' by John Simpson and Frank Gregory, Southampton University.

MENAUL: 5/4/47 [1970]

Lecture synopsis (not for attributed quotation): 'The political application of limited naval force' by J Cable.

MENAUL: 5/4/48 [1970]

Magazine article: 'The political application of limited naval force' by J Cable.

MENAUL: 5/4/49 [1973]

Paper entitled: 'Promotion and control in defence management and policy planning' by G M Dillon.

MENAUL: 5/4/50 1973 Oct 17

Royal United Services Institute Journal: 'Military procurement' lecture by Sir M Cary, KCB.

MENAUL: 5/4/51 [1972-1980]

Text of lecture: on defence support.

MENAUL: 5/4/52 1967 Jun

Institute for Strategic Studies: 'Defence, technology and the Western Alliance'. No 2. The European armaments base: a survey. Part 1: Economic aspects of defence procurement' by C J E Harlow.

MENAUL: 5/4/53 1967 Jul

Institute for Strategic Studies: 'Defence, technology and the Western Alliance'. No 2. The European armaments base: a survey. [Part 2: 'National procurement policies' by C J E Harlow]

MENAUL: 5/4/54 1967 Jul

Institute for Strategic Studies: 'Defence, technology and the Western Alliance. Number 3. Standardization and common production of weapons in NATO' by Robert Rhodes James.

MENAUL: 5/4/55 1973 Apr

Report on seminar at Royal United Services Institute on 4 Apr 1973: 'The role of the armed forces in peace keeping in the 1970s'. 2 copies

MENAUL: 5/4/56 1972 Oct

Lectures at the University of Southampton, published by Royal United Services Institute: 'Weapons procurement, defence management and international collaboration'. Forward by Menaul. 3 copies

MENAUL: 5/4/57 1973 Nov

Seminar at Royal United Services Institute on 28 Nov 1973: 'The armed forces in modern society'.

MENAUL: 5/4/58 1970 Nov

Seminar at Royal United Services Institute on 4 Nov 1970: 'Does the strategy of flexible response need modifying? If so in what way?'

MENAUL: 5/4/59 1975

Paper by David Greenwood for Royal United Services Institute and Brassey's Defence Yearbook: 'Politics, economics and European defence'.

MENAUL: 5/4/60 1982 Jun

Paper by Anthony Courtney, Chairman Wiltshire branch of the Monday Club: 'Defence'.

MENAUL: 5/4/61 1982 Mar 16

Heritage Foundation Backgrounder: 'Cutting the high cost of weapons'.

MENAUL: 5/4/62 [1972]

Paper by Prof I Cheesman, M Edmunds and J Simpson: 'The procurement of military aircraft, 1945-70'.

MENAUL: 5/4/63 1967

Paper: 'Unison 67. Decision making in defence policy'.

MENAUL: 5/4/64 [1967-1974]

Organisational diagram: 'Procurement executive ministry of defence. Top level organisation'.

MENAUL: 5/4/65 [1967-1974

Diagrams relating to procedures in MoD military procurement.

MENAUL: 5/4/66 [1973-1974]

Magazine article: 'Defence expenditures and national economies' by Stefano Silvestri.

MENAUL: 5/4/67 [1973-1974]

Magazine article: 'Equipment standardization and co-operation' by John Stone.

MENAUL: 5/4/68 [1969-1974]

'Logistics, lift and mobility' part III: section (iv), of untitled work relating to Soviet defence.

MENAUL: 5/4/69 1981 Jul

Royal Institute on International Affairs paper Chatham House/MoD seminar: 'The declining myth of flexible response' by Dr Lawrence Freedman.

MENAUL: 5/4/70 1981 Jul

Chatham House/MoD seminar paper: 'Flexible response: an enduring reality' response to 5/4/69.

MENAUL: 5/4/71 [1982-1984]

Report from Optima: 'A new strategy for the west' by Frank R Barnett.

MENAUL: 5/4/72 [1977-1978]

Paper entitled: 'World balance of power'.

MENAUL: 5/4/73 1974 Feb 11

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Budget steadies aerospace outlook'; 'Pentagon stresses modernization of its strategic, tactical forces'; 'USAF seeks strategic developments'; 'Defense suppression RPVs (Remotely Piloted Vechicle) planned'; 'Army plans to buy future mix of high, low capability aircraft'; 'Navy presses missile advances, lower-cost fighter development'; 'Major weapon system spending detailed'; 'Marines to modernize air fleet', and Washington Roundup section: (a) 'Chinese missiles' and (b) 'Naval base', at Diego Garcia.

MENAUL: 5/4/74 1974 Nov 4

Aviation Week and Space Technology editorial: 'Cost and performance'.

MENAUL: 5/4/75 [1975-1976]

Paper by Menaul: 'Western technology versus Soviet mass' also draft and duplicate pp 8-23.

MENAUL: 5/4/76 [1972-1974]

Paper by Menaul: 'The world strategic situation'. 2 versions

MENAUL: 5/4/77 1980

Asian Defence Journal: 'South East Asia. Air defence' by Menaul.

MENAUL: 5/4/78 [1984-1987]

Paper by Menaul: 'Air defence in South East Asia'.

MENAUL: 5/4/79 1986 Oct

Paper by Menaul: 'The air defence of Turkey'. 2 copies

MENAUL: 5/4/80 [1980-1987]

Paper by Menaul: 'The air defence of the Arabian peninsula'.

MENAUL: 5/4/81 [1976]

Foreword to paper: relating to arms procurement [by Menaul].

MENAUL: 5/4/82 [1972-1978]

Paper: [by Menaul] 'The political and economic effects on the procurement of aircraft and weapons systems for the Royal Air Force. A critique'.

MENAUL: 5/4/83 [1972-1974]

Lecture: 'The nature of military operations in the foreseeable future'.

MENAUL: 5/4/84 1971 Nov

'Aide memoire' notes for Menaul's lecture to Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, on 30 Nov 1971: international strategic situation.

MENAUL: 5/4/85 [1978-1982]

National Strategy Information Centre INC paper: 'Ameliorations militaire tres rapides' ("Quick fix" military innovations).

MENAUL: 5/4/86 1983 Aug 31

Letter to Menaul from G Stewart-Smith: asking for comments on paper entitled 'A consideration of the fundamental strategic principles necessary for the survival of the free world'. (See 5/4/87)

MENAUL: 5/4/87 1983 Aug

Foreign Affairs Research Institute draft paper: 'A consideration of the fundamental strategic principles necessary for the survival of the free world' by G Stewart-Smith.

MENAUL: 5/4/88 [1981]

Paper: 'The rebirth of strategy. Robust planning for the west'.

MENAUL: 5/4/89 1982 Jul 22

Paper presented to Second Annual World Balance of Power Conference, Leeds Castle, Kent: 'Is a global maritime strategy feasible?' by Adm M Duval.

MENAUL: 5/4/90 1982 Jul 21

Paper by R C Richardson III at Leeds Castle: 'A window of opportunity, or of vulnerability? A review of the space, nuclear and conventional global balance'.

MENAUL: 5/4/91 1979

Foreign Affairs Research Institute Paper by G Stewart-Smith, Director of FARI: 'The case for a tri-oceanic alliance'.

MENAUL: 5/4/92 [1980-1981]

Paper by Frank R Barnett, President National Strategy Information Centre: 'Reclaiming the initiative from the Soviet heartland. The case for a tri-oceanic alliance of the imperiled rimlands'.

MENAUL: 5/4/93 [1972-1980]

Paper: 'An explanation of today's fundamental defence problem' by R C Richardson.

MENAUL: 5/4/94 1982

Foreign Affairs Research Institute paper by G Stewart-Smith, Director of FARI: 'Problems of evolving a western global strategy'.

MENAUL: 5/4/95 1982

Foreign Affairs Research Institute Paper by G Stewart-Smith, Director of FARI: 'The rebirth of global strategic thought'.

MENAUL: 5/4/96 1981

Foreign Affairs Research Institute Paper by G Stewart-Smith, Director of FARI: 'Global collective security in the 1980s'.

MENAUL: 5/4/97 1981

Foreign Affairs Research Institute Paper by Maj Gen R S N Mans: 'How arbitrary defence budget limits endanger western security'.

MENAUL: 5/4/98 1980

Foreign Affairs Research Institute Paper by Audrey Parry: 'The politics of oil and alliances'.

MENAUL: 5/4/99 1980

Foreign Affairs Research Institute Paper by Vice-Adm Sir Louis le Bailly: 'The one open highway', shipping and seapower.

MENAUL: 5/4/100 1980

Foreign Affairs Research Institute paper by Audrey Parry: 'The global scramble for oil'.

MENAUL: 5/4/101 1979

Foreign Affairs Research Institute paper by Prof Gerhart Niemeyer: 'Foreign policy and morality'.

MENAUL: 5/4/102 1979

Foreign Affairs Research Institute paper by G Stewart-Smith: 'Is a free world grand strategy emerging?'.

MENAUL: 5/4/103 1979

Foreign Affairs Research Institute paper by Desmond Wettern: 'The defence of western Europe: a maritime answer?'.

MENAUL: 5/4/104 1978

Foreign Affairs Research Institute paper by Audrey Parry: 'The growing vulnerability of oil supplies'.

MENAUL: 5/4/105 1977

Foreign Affairs Research Institute Paper by Patrick Wall MP: 'The present state of the world balance of power'.

MENAUL: 5/4/106 1978 Jul 17

Aviation Week and Space Technology: 'Congress study lists strategic options'.

MENAUL: 5/4/107 1974 May 18

To the Point International: 'The mini-powers with maxi-punch', arms sales to the third world.

MENAUL: 5/4/108 [1967]

Manuscript notes on the international arms trade.
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