Status of Defense Forces and Five Year Defense Planning and Funding Implications

Abstract

In our view, one of the greatest challenges facing DOD today is to manage reduced spending after the largest peacetime defense buildup in our nation's history. DODs budget more than doubled from 1980 to 1985. Since 1986 DOD's budget has been reduced somewhat-- but at $290 billion it remains 36 percent higher today-- in real terms --than in fiscal year 1980. Overall $2.4 trillion in funding has been provided since 1980.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 10, 1989
Accession Number
AD1105710

Entities

People

  • Charles Arthur Bowsher

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Attack Submarines
  • Defense Planning
  • Force Structure
  • Inventory
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Capabilities
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Navy
  • Procurement
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Ships
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Strategic Security Studies