The transformation of the U.S. military is entering a critical stage. The Department of Defense is initiating the most far-reaching changes in its worldwide bases and deployments since the 1950s. Parallel efforts to consolidate domestic bases and defense facilities are likely as well, now that the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission has begun its work. And the Quadrennial Defense Review currently underway could have a profound impact on the size and shape of future forces. As defense planners grapple with the pace ...
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The transformation of the U.S. military is entering a critical stage. The Department of Defense is initiating the most far-reaching changes in its worldwide bases and deployments since the 1950s. Parallel efforts to consolidate domestic bases and defense facilities are likely as well, now that the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission has begun its work. And the Quadrennial Defense Review currently underway could have a profound impact on the size and shape of future forces. As defense planners grapple with the pace and direction of military transformation, the budgetary context of strategic decisionmaking is becoming much less favorable. In this monograph, Dennis S. Ippolito focuses on the spending policy, deficit and debt, and retirement and healthcare entitlement dynamics that will make it difficult, if not impossible, to fund current defense plans.
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Add this copy of Budget Policy, Deficits, and Defense: a Fiscal to cart. $50.00, good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute.
Edition:
2006, Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College
Publisher:
Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College
Published:
2005
Language:
English
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13469939377
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Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling. vi, 39, [3] p. Tables. Figures. Endnotes. From an on-line posting: "The purpose of this monograph is to present a fiscal policy framework that is likely to shape current and future defense funding levels. Defense planners need to take into account the ways in which domestic policy commitments, budget policy trends, and budgetary politics affect defense. In particular, current defense plans contain optimistic, and arguably unrealistic, assumptions about long-term funding for the core defense budget. Recent Future Years Defense Programs have projected real (inflation-adjusted) spending levels well above Cold War peaks and assumed that these levels, unlike the Cold War peaks, can be sustained indefinitely. However, with unusually severe budgetary constraints in place for the foreseeable future, defense spending levels will likely be lower and more volatile than current planning envisions. The challenge for strategic planners, then, is to impose clear priorities on a defense budget that cannot accommodate all they deem desirable. These priorities must also be prudent, which in a wartime context means protecting funding for the urgent and the necessary--readiness and traditional--modernization against the highly uncertain potential benefits of transformational modernization."
