The Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System, A Strategic Failure.

Abstract

What has been trumpeted as a success in consolidating the powers of the Services into the Department of Defense has in reality become a quagmire of financial waste to the government. The Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System has been a strategic failure to the Department of Defense because it fails to coordinate the interagencies that are responsible for the execution of the budget. The reasons for this failure do not solely lie on the shoulders of the Department of Defense and the Services. Congress, politics and democracy have played a major role in its failure. All this, together with the complexity and size of the system, has led to an environment that is riddled with duplication and confusion.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA308638

Entities

People

  • Thomas N. Hinkel

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Budgets
  • California
  • Computer Programming
  • Congress
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Force Structure
  • Governments
  • Logistics Management
  • Military Budgets
  • New York
  • Procurement
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Systems Analysis and Design