Managing the Defense Budget: A Congressional Strategy

By Halperin, Morton H.

Book Id: WPLBN0000158550
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Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Managing the Defense Budget: A Congressional Strategy
Author:	Halperin, Morton H.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Excerpt: The main question posed by this year’s military budget is “why? “ Why did the President approve an almost $100 billion budget carefully, but fraudulently, disguised as a $92.6 budget with two supplemental requests to the past 1974 request? By artificially inflating the 1974 request, while reducing the 1975 request, he has tried to make them seem more equal. But an examination of projected defense purchases of goods and services reveals that the threat is declining and the first paragraph of the Defense Department’s main release boasts “-or the first time in 10 years the Defense budget does not include funds to support combat operations of U.S. forces any place in the world”, There is, as always, something to complain about in the Soviet missile program. But the pace of that development program is actually slower than DO expected, though more broadly based, and our own economy will be modernization is going more swiftly and dented increase for peacetime, one exceeded since World being done more effectively, Moreover, the changes in War II only during the Korean and Vietnamese build-ups. the Soviet missile program have at most very moderate The reason does not lie in an increasing threat.

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