Author: Common Cause (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Designed to increase public awareness of military spending, this 5-part guide examines the process and problems of preparing the national defense budget. The publication begins with a brief overview of the 1984 defense budget. Major military programs, trends in budgeting, and key concerns in budget formulation are explored. Graphs and charts clarify budget appropriations. Section 2 presents seven steps in the ideal budgeting process: defense guidance, service budget requests, the secretary's budget request, the president's budget request, the congressional defense budget ceiling, defense authorization, and defense appropriation. Sections 3 and 4 focus on problems that originate with the executive branch of government and the Congress. Some of the issues are weaknesses in the structure of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, interservice rivalry, overemphasis on weapons, pork barrel legislation, lobbying pressures from the defense industry and defense department, and presidential and congressional oversight. The final section outlines a program of defense budget reform that includes setting more realistic goals, improving cost estimating, reforming the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and strengthening Congressional review. Appendices contain a list of key sources for defense budget research, members of key congressional committees, and a 2-page bibliography. (LP)
Defense Dollars and Sense
Author: Common Cause (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Designed to increase public awareness of military spending, this 5-part guide examines the process and problems of preparing the national defense budget. The publication begins with a brief overview of the 1984 defense budget. Major military programs, trends in budgeting, and key concerns in budget formulation are explored. Graphs and charts clarify budget appropriations. Section 2 presents seven steps in the ideal budgeting process: defense guidance, service budget requests, the secretary's budget request, the president's budget request, the congressional defense budget ceiling, defense authorization, and defense appropriation. Sections 3 and 4 focus on problems that originate with the executive branch of government and the Congress. Some of the issues are weaknesses in the structure of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, interservice rivalry, overemphasis on weapons, pork barrel legislation, lobbying pressures from the defense industry and defense department, and presidential and congressional oversight. The final section outlines a program of defense budget reform that includes setting more realistic goals, improving cost estimating, reforming the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and strengthening Congressional review. Appendices contain a list of key sources for defense budget research, members of key congressional committees, and a 2-page bibliography. (LP)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Designed to increase public awareness of military spending, this 5-part guide examines the process and problems of preparing the national defense budget. The publication begins with a brief overview of the 1984 defense budget. Major military programs, trends in budgeting, and key concerns in budget formulation are explored. Graphs and charts clarify budget appropriations. Section 2 presents seven steps in the ideal budgeting process: defense guidance, service budget requests, the secretary's budget request, the president's budget request, the congressional defense budget ceiling, defense authorization, and defense appropriation. Sections 3 and 4 focus on problems that originate with the executive branch of government and the Congress. Some of the issues are weaknesses in the structure of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, interservice rivalry, overemphasis on weapons, pork barrel legislation, lobbying pressures from the defense industry and defense department, and presidential and congressional oversight. The final section outlines a program of defense budget reform that includes setting more realistic goals, improving cost estimating, reforming the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and strengthening Congressional review. Appendices contain a list of key sources for defense budget research, members of key congressional committees, and a 2-page bibliography. (LP)
The Economics of Defense Spending
Author: United States. Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defence contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Defence contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Dollars and Sense of Command and Control
Author: Gordon Press Publishers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849068836
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849068836
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Defense Sense
Author: Ronald V. Dellums
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In a compelling, straightforward and accessible presentation of an alternative to uncontrolled military expenditures, Congressman Dellums offers answers to international, military, economic and moral questions posed by the military budget. This is a collection of the testimony of more than 20 witnesses, such as Paul Warnke, Gordon Adams and J. William Fulbright, at a congressional hearing on the full implications of the military budget. Asking two questions: What are the motives and effects of domestic and global weapons commerce; and what are the moral imperatives of a shift in values? the authors offer a critique of the swollen military budget from political, economic, scientific, educational and moral perspectives and argue that justice and peacemaking must replace interventionism and predominance as absolute goods. ISBN 0-88410-942-9 : $29.95.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
In a compelling, straightforward and accessible presentation of an alternative to uncontrolled military expenditures, Congressman Dellums offers answers to international, military, economic and moral questions posed by the military budget. This is a collection of the testimony of more than 20 witnesses, such as Paul Warnke, Gordon Adams and J. William Fulbright, at a congressional hearing on the full implications of the military budget. Asking two questions: What are the motives and effects of domestic and global weapons commerce; and what are the moral imperatives of a shift in values? the authors offer a critique of the swollen military budget from political, economic, scientific, educational and moral perspectives and argue that justice and peacemaking must replace interventionism and predominance as absolute goods. ISBN 0-88410-942-9 : $29.95.
The $650 Billion Bargain
Author: Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher: Marshall Papers
ISBN: 9780815729570
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
" U.S. defense spending isn't excessive and, in fact, should continue to grow because it's both affordable and necessary in today's challenging world. The United States spends a lot of money on defense--$607 billion in the current fiscal year. But Brookings national security scholar Michael O'Hanlon argues that is roughly the right amount given the overall size of the national economy and continuing U.S. responsibilities around the world. If anything, he says spending should increase modestly under the next president, remaining near 3 percent of gross domestic product. Recommendations in this book differ from the president's budget plan in two key ways. First, the author sees a mismatch in the Pentagon's current plans between ends and means. The country needs to spend enough money to carry out its military missions and commitments. Second, O'Hanlon recommends dropping a plan to cut the size of the Army from the current 475,000 active-duty soldiers to 450,000. The U.S. national defense budget is entirely affordable--relative to the size of the economy, relative to past levels of effort by this country in the national security domain, and relative, especially, to the costs of failing to uphold a stable international order. Even at a modestly higher price, it will be the best $650 billion bargain going, and a worthy investment in this country's security and its long-term national power."
Publisher: Marshall Papers
ISBN: 9780815729570
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
" U.S. defense spending isn't excessive and, in fact, should continue to grow because it's both affordable and necessary in today's challenging world. The United States spends a lot of money on defense--$607 billion in the current fiscal year. But Brookings national security scholar Michael O'Hanlon argues that is roughly the right amount given the overall size of the national economy and continuing U.S. responsibilities around the world. If anything, he says spending should increase modestly under the next president, remaining near 3 percent of gross domestic product. Recommendations in this book differ from the president's budget plan in two key ways. First, the author sees a mismatch in the Pentagon's current plans between ends and means. The country needs to spend enough money to carry out its military missions and commitments. Second, O'Hanlon recommends dropping a plan to cut the size of the Army from the current 475,000 active-duty soldiers to 450,000. The U.S. national defense budget is entirely affordable--relative to the size of the economy, relative to past levels of effort by this country in the national security domain, and relative, especially, to the costs of failing to uphold a stable international order. Even at a modestly higher price, it will be the best $650 billion bargain going, and a worthy investment in this country's security and its long-term national power."
The Economics of Defense
Author: Members of Congress for Peace through Law. Military Spending Committee
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Defense contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Dollars and Sense
Author: Canada. Department of National Defence
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Blunting the Sword
Author: Dennis S. Ippolito
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Dollars and Sense of Disarmament
Author: Carl Marzani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disarmament
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disarmament
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The U.S.-China Military Scorecard
Author: Eric Heginbotham
Publisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 0833082272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
A RAND study analyzed Chinese and U.S. military capabilities in two scenarios (Taiwan and the Spratly Islands) from 1996 to 2017, finding that trends in most, but not all, areas run strongly against the United States. While U.S. aggregate power remains greater than China’s, distance and geography affect outcomes. China is capable of challenging U.S. military dominance on its immediate periphery—and its reach is likely to grow in the years ahead.
Publisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 0833082272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
A RAND study analyzed Chinese and U.S. military capabilities in two scenarios (Taiwan and the Spratly Islands) from 1996 to 2017, finding that trends in most, but not all, areas run strongly against the United States. While U.S. aggregate power remains greater than China’s, distance and geography affect outcomes. China is capable of challenging U.S. military dominance on its immediate periphery—and its reach is likely to grow in the years ahead.