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:
2005, U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute
Publisher:
U. S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute
Published:
2005
Language:
English
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13469939377
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Seller's Description:
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."
