Federal Budget Policy and Defense Strategy.

Abstract

The author discusses how defense policy and strategy will be affected by fiscal constraints. Army leadership struggles with the tradeoffs that have to be made when balancing the needs of today's readiness against the cost of tomorrow 's modernization. Difficult decisions, not without long-range consequences, need to be made that are central to the nation's security. The fiscal health of the nation will determine the scale and scope of U.S. security policy-- and the Army's budget--as we enter the 21st century. The author examines Federal budget practices over the past several decades, with a particular focus on sources and trends in our national deficit spending syndrome.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 15, 1996
Accession Number
ADA304984

Entities

People

  • Dennis S. Ippolito

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agreements
  • Budgets
  • Classification
  • Cold War
  • Department Of Defense
  • Discretionary Spending
  • Federal Budgets
  • Health Care
  • Military Budgets
  • National Politics
  • Political Science
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • Social Security
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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