Thoughts on the defense budget: Rather, the real fight over the future of the defense budget will happen in the corridors of the Pentagon and in congressional committees. The nuclear weapons industrial complex will fight bitterly to maintain a role for itself, undoubtedly assisted by...
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Grover Cleveland and Chris Preble point out the nifty DoD budget cost cutting tool at the NYT. It's not terribly hard to get to $450 billion, especially if you cut.
New study out of UMass-Amherst affirms the obvious in a methodologically rigorous way: Congressional debates on deficit reduction have highlighted the assertion that large cuts in the military budget would.
It's fun to teach the bureaucratic politics segment of National Security Policy during such momentous times. Panetta: The federal budget is roughly about $4 trillion. About a trillion of that is in what's called discretionary funds on the domestic side and on the defense side....