Table of Contents
- A Report of
- The Project for the New American Century
- Contents
- Rebuilding Today20s Armed Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- Nuclear Forces
- Forces for 17Constabulary20 Duties
- Repositioning Today20s Force
- The State of the Air Force
- Forward-Based Forces
- Air Force Units Based
- In the United States
- New Course for the Navy
- Marine Corps:
- 17Back to the Future20
- The State of the Marine Corps
- Toward a 21st Century Army
- VI
- Defense Spending
- The Congress has been complicit in this defense decline. In the first years of the administration, Congress acquiesced in the sharp reductions made by the Clinton Administration from the amount projected in the final Bush defense plan. Since the Republ
- Through all the accounting gimmicks, defense spending has been almost perfectly flat 05 indeed, the totals have been less than $1 billion apart 05 for the past four years. The steepest declines in defense spending were accomplished during the early years
- The CSIS report is but the most recent in a series of reports gauging the size of the mismatch between current long-term defense plans and budgets. The Congres-sional Budget Office20s latest estimate of the annual mismatch is at least $90 billion. Even
- As troublesome as the trends of the past decade have been, as inadequate as current budgets are, the longer-term future is more troubling still. If current spending levels are maintained, by some projections, the amount of the defense shortfall will be
- the road, the military departments will, in effect, create a situation in which they require $4.4 trillion in procurement dollars16 from 2006 through 2020 to maintain the current force.
- Alvin Bernstein
- Stephen Cambone
- Eliot Cohen
- Devon Gaffney Cross
- Thomas Donnelly
- David Epstein
- David Fautua
- Dan Goure
- Donald Kagan
- Fred Kagan
- Robert Kagan
- William Kristol
- Mark Lagon
- James Lasswell
- I. Lewis Libby
- Robert Martinage
- Phil Meilinger
- Mackubin Owens
- Steve Rosen
- Gary Schmitt
- Abram Shulsky
- Michael Vickers
- Barry Watts
- Paul Wolfowitz
- Dov Zakheim