National Security Report: Background and Perspective on Important National Security and Defense Policy Issues. Volume 1, Issue 2, April 1997. U.S. Defense Budget: Walking the Tightrope without a Net

Abstract

The Clinton administration's defense budget request of $265.3 billion for Fiscal Year (FY) 1998 represents a 2 percent real decrease from current (FY 1997) spending. As such, it continues a 13-year-long trend of real defense spending decline and it marks a 38 percent real reduction in spending from defense budgets in the mid-l98Os. The FY 1998 defense budget request represents 3.1 percent of the nation's gross domestic product, down more than 50 percent from the 1985 level of 6.4 percent. The FY 1998 defense budget request, when measured in constant dollars, represents the smallest defense budget since 1950.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA377571

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