Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by James R. Schlesinger

Quote by James R. Schlesinger

“Viewed abstractly, systems analysis implies rigorous thinking, hopefully quantitative, regarding the gains and the resource-expenditures involved in a particular course of action -- to insure that scarce resources are employed productively rather than wastefully.”

Quote by James R. Schlesinger

Create image

Author

James R. Schlesinger
James R. Schlesinger

James R. Schlesinger was an American politician and businessman, serving as the United States Secretary of Defense. His tenure as Defense Secretary during the Cold War had a profound impact on American military policy and national security strategy. more

You May Also Like

“The organizational consequence of this highly quantitative image of defense decision-making is an independent and high-level office of systems analysis (or program analysis) reporting directly to the secretary. This office, separated from the parochialism of the individual services, commands, and functional offices of the Defense Department, is charged with de novo analysis of the services' program proposals (and, indeed, with the generation of alternative programs) to assess the relative merits of different potential uses of the same dollars. Its activities culminate in the secretary's decision on a single coherent set of numerically defined programs. This model imposes a requirement for close interaction between the secretary of defense and the principal program analyst. A suitable person for the job is difficult to obtain without granting him or her direct access to the secretary. This model, therefore, requires that the chief program analyst report directly to the secretary and it inevitably limits the program and budget role of the other chief officials of the OSD, especially the principal policy adviser. The model leaves unresolved how the guidance for the analysis process is to be developed and even how choices are to be made. Analysis is not always made rigorous and objective simply by making it quantitative, and not everything relevant can be quantified. At its extreme, it can degenerate into a system in which objectives become important because they can be quantified, rather than quantification being important because it can illuminate objectives.”

Defense PolicySystems AnalysisDefense Expert
Author:Walter Slocombe
Create image

“If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love.”

Life QuotesLove QuotesWisdom QuotesLife Quotes And SayingsLove Quotes And SayingsMatshona Dhliwayo QuotesWise QuotesLife Lessons QuotesLife QuotationsHappiness QuotesLife Lesson QuotesLove QuoteLife QuoteWise QuotationsGuru QuotesWisdom QuotationsLove QuotationsLife Quotes Inspirational QuotesSage QuotesLife Lessons QuotationsWise Sayings QuotesWisdom QuoteWise Words QuotesStrength QuotesJoy QuotesSmile QuotesLove Quotes And SayingLove Quotes For EverybodyHappy QuotesHappiness QuotationsHappiness QuoteLove Quotes LoveStrength QuotationsSmile QuotationsStudy Quotes
Author:Matshona Dhliwayo
Create image