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2018
This chapter analyzes the cost of the US nuclear arsenal. Many analysts have argued that a robust nuclear arsenal is unaffordable, but this chapter shows that this view is incorrect. It reviews the arguments made by those in favor of reducing spending on US nuclear weapons and moves on to present the counterargument about why the US nuclear force is ...
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This chapter analyzes the cost of the US nuclear arsenal. Many analysts have argued that a robust nuclear arsenal is unaffordable, but this chapter shows that this view is incorrect. It reviews the arguments made by those in favor of reducing spending on US nuclear weapons and moves on to present the counterargument about why the US nuclear force is ...
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Defense Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2021This chapter dissects the US defense budget, as well as various matters in the broader field of defense economics. It provides methodologies for understanding how different defense strategies and military force postures affect that budget. The chapter also explores various ways the defense budget can be categorized, broken down, and defined.
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The Future U.S. Defense Budget
Orbis, 2017Abstract The next president should elevate the role of U.S. defense strategy and planning in the next administration toward the goal of developing a new strategic framework that assumes a long-term defense competition with both Russia and China. This goal will require a thorough overhaul of the resource assumptions of the Obama defense budget and ...
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1953
Under present conditions civil defense officials face the appalling prospect that ten to forty million casualties might result from the first series of enemy attacks. Their problems are accentuated by inadequate and declining budgetary support. The author of this article has followed the progress of civil defense for more than a year from the vantage ...
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Under present conditions civil defense officials face the appalling prospect that ten to forty million casualties might result from the first series of enemy attacks. Their problems are accentuated by inadequate and declining budgetary support. The author of this article has followed the progress of civil defense for more than a year from the vantage ...
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Senate Defense Budgeting, 1981-1988
American Politics Quarterly, 1989Studying Senate roll call votes during the Reagan administration sheds light on the interaction of party, ideology, and local economic benefit as explanatory factors in a senator's decision to support the president's position on defense spending issues. Party and ideology are found to be the most important of these three, but their effects change when
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President Eisenhower and the Defense Budget
The Journal of Politics, 1977ONE OF THE STRIKING ASPECTS of much of the writing about President Dwight David Eisenhower is the image it portrays of a weak, though personable, president-one who relied too much on his subordinates in making important decisions. Generally this is ascribed to his dislike of the politics of power, which a president must pursue, and to the ...
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Defense Programs and Budget Risk
2006Abstract : The 2006 QDR calls for an investment in diverse capabilities to confront a broad range of national security in the twenty first century. US national security documents require the services to maintain a position of supremacy as they build these capabilities.
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Controlling the Defense Budget
Foreign Affairs, 1976Barry M. Blechman, Edward R. Fried
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