Defense Budget

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defense budget overview written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip J. Candreva
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1681238721
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Defense Budgeting and Financial Management written by Philip J. Candreva and published by IAP. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of Defense accounts for over half of federal government discretionary spending and over 3% of GDP. Half of all federal employees work for the Department. The annual budget for the military not only provides for those salaries, it covers the baseline and wartime operating expenses of the force, and hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in new capabilities and technologies. Given the materiality of the defense function and amount of resources it consumes, the processes for budgeting for defense and managing the funds is important to understand. This text provides a fully integrated view of defense budgeting. It takes the position that defense budgeting is a specific instance of public budgeting, and public budgeting is a specific instance of public policy. In order to fully understand how the nation budgets for defense, it first lays a theoretical and conceptual foundation for public policy and public budgeting. That is followed by an assessment of the political and policy context for defense, including the overarching federal budget process and role of Congress in setting defense policy. Only then does the text explore the specifics of defense budgeting: how, by whom, and why the budget is crafted. Beyond the topic of budgeting – formulating, requesting, and legitimating the request for funds – the book tackles financial management topics. Included are discussions of federal appropriations law, funds management, accounting requirements, intragovernmental business transactions, and contemporary topics of defense policy such as funding overseas contingency operations in an era of deficit control legislation. This book is an appropriate reference for both students and practitioners of defense budgeting and financial management. It would also be appropriate in a general public budgeting course. Most public budgeting texts focus on state and municipal governments and there are few that address the federal system. This book fills that gap and provides a specific example of federal budgeting.

Author : United States. Air Force. Office of Comptroller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Air Force Budget written by United States. Air Force. Office of Comptroller and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex Mintz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134903316
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Military Spending in the United States written by Alex Mintz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a timely collection of essays utilizing the political economy approach to military spending, primarily by the United States. The articles deal specifically with the relationships between defense spending and: (a) political-business cycles, public opinion and the US-Soviet relationship; (b) military action - i.e. war; (c) economic performance - the trade deficit, guns versus butter issues and fiscal policy.

Author : Barry Rundquist
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806134024
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congress and Defense Spending written by Barry Rundquist and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War II, the U.S. government has spent more than $10 trillion on defense. Although everyone in the United States must pay taxes supporting defense contracts, ten states have obtained 75 percent of all defense contracts and expenditures. In Congress and Defense Spending , Barry S. Rundquist and Thomas M. Carsey examine how the distribution of defense contracts is influenced by the interaction of state and local economies with the organization of Congress and how previous state representation on defense committees has affected current committee representation.

Author : Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815729588
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The $650 Billion Bargain written by Michael E. O'Hanlon and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. defense spending isn’t excessive and, in fact, should continue to grow because it’s both affordable and necessary in today's challenging world. The United States spends a lot of money on defense—$607 billion in the current fiscal year. But Brookings national security scholar Michael O'Hanlon argues that is roughly the right amount given the overall size of the national economy and continuing U.S. responsibilities around the world. If anything, he says spending should increase modestly under the next president, remaining near 3 percent of gross domestic product. Recommendations in this book differ from the president's budget plan in two key ways. First, the author sees a mismatch in the Pentagon’s current plans between ends and means. The country needs to spend enough money to carry out its military missions and commitments. Second, O'Hanlon recommends dropping a plan to cut the size of the Army from the current 475,000 active-duty soldiers to 450,000. The U.S. national defense budget is entirely affordable—relative to the size of the economy, relative to past levels of effort by this country in the national security domain, and relative, especially, to the costs of failing to uphold a stable international order. Even at a modestly higher price, it will be the best $650 billion bargain going, and a worthy investment in this country’s security and its long-term national power.

Author : National Military Establishment (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Secretary of Defense written by National Military Establishment (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congressional Budget Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Budget Options written by United States. Congressional Budget Office and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Citizens Against Government Waste
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 146685314X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pig Book written by Citizens Against Government Waste and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!

Author : Jordi Calvo Rufanges
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367493394
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Military Spending and Global Security written by Jordi Calvo Rufanges and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global military expenditure reached an estimated $1,822 billion in 2018 and this book questions what that spending responds to and indeed what that entails in terms of global security. The book draws from prior knowledge and research on military expenditure but introduces an all-encompassing, in-depth and original analysis of military spending as a key and often overlooked factor of global instability, delving into the present and future consequences of its perpetual growth, as well as confronting the reasoning behind it. The authors argue that increasing military expenditure is not the best response to the emergencies militarization itself has helped create. They assert that militarization is paradoxically both a cause of and a response to the grave challenges our society is facing. The book explains why people are not well served by nation-states when they continuously seek to out-compete one another in the size and destructive powers of their militaries. It discusses the scope of military spending around the world, while explaining how militarism is linked with conflict and security threats, and how military spending further prevents us from adequately dealing with global environmental problems like climate change. A must-read for scholars, researchers and students from a wide range of disciplines. It will also find an audience among professionals from the third sector and activists working on issues related to peace, security and militarism, as well as social and climate justice.