1. Defense Monitor, Who Will Pay for this Puny Defense Budget?
- Author:
- Eric Hagt, Philip E. Coyle, Whitney Parker, Rachel Stohl, Winslow Wheeler, Victoria Samson, and Rhea Myerscough
- Publication Date:
- 03-2007
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Center for Defense Information
- Abstract:
- This analysis first appeared in the Fort Worth Star-Telegramon March 5, 2007.The new 2008 defense budget has been on the street for weeks. A consensus has emerged in Washington about its size. That consensus has little to do with the facts and much to do with political maneuvering, which has been orchestrated with brilliant success by the very same White House that everyone in Washington discounts as washed up.
- Topic:
- Defense Policy and Arms Control and Proliferation
- Political Geography:
- United States, China, and Asia