Impacto de las compensaciones industriales sobre las capacidades de las Fuerzas Armadas de Chile

Abstract

This article does an impact analysis of the industrial compensations over the capacities of the Chilean Armed Forces. This work is very important considering that Chilean State added the industrial compensation system to its Defense acquisitions policy only a couple of years ago, reason why there is a debate about which are the effects of this policy in the medium and long terms. In the academic world, there exists the idea that associating industrial compensations to the weapon system purchase may infl uence the eligibility of certain weapon system above others, which drives the author to the conclusion that if there is an option to choose between two or more weapon systems that comply the technical and operation requirements, the cheapest should be chosen even though the other has better offset.

Keywords

• Offset
• Defense
• Armed Forces
• Chile