An Management-Decision Research about Applying AHP Method to Investigate into the Optimal Ratio about National Defense Budget

• Main Authors: Chang-Wen Hsu, 許昶文
• Other Authors: 李弘暉
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86672821416086145370

碩士 === 元智大學 === 管理研究所 === 94 === With the change of international politics, there are rapid changes in the safety of the whole world and regions, and the essence of the conflict and the form of the threat are changing constantly. Because of facing the military force from Communist Party of China, Taiwan must also adjust the scale of fight with new strategy and thinking, actively improving from each aspect, such as organization, criteria, training, equipment, etc. In recent years, the tax revenues are insufficient, the finance is tired out , economy eases up because of fighting in politics, the GDP is grown up limited, so, how to make good use of national defense resources effectively is very important. The main purpose of this research is to find out the optimal allocation and uses under limited national defense resources and the consideration of practice and theory. This thesis investigates the optimal ratios of national defense budgets, including of personnel costs, maintenance costs and military investments, to meet the demand of prepared against the war, develop the fighting capacity, and reach the strategic objective of the national defense, this is not only the topic that advanced countries pay attention to, but also a worth topic to research and analyze at present. This thesis adopts the research methods including the document collecting and analysis method, the expert''s questionnaire investigation method, the analytic hierarchy process method (AHP). The data resources are divided into two major parts, the first part comes to the national defense reports of Taiwan and other various countries, and the second one comes from the professional suggestion and views of 117 National Defense University''s studying officers. From expert''s questionnaire investigation results, “the military investments” gets the highest relative weight of the importance up to 49.50%, secondly is 26.31% for “personnel costs”, and the end is “maintenance costs”, that is 24.17%. In the dimension of optimal ratios, the whole people think the proportion of “military investments” should be up to 40.62%, secondly is 31.33% for personnel costs, and the last one is '' maintenance costs “(27.96%).