How to be a cheap hawk : the 1999 and 2000 defense budgets / Michael O'Hanlon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Hanlon, Michael E.

Series:

Brookings studies in foreign policy ; 2.

Brookings studies in foreign policy ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of Defense--Appropriations and expenditures.

United States.

United States. Department of Defense.

Expenditures, Public.

United States--Military policy.

Military policy.

Physical Description:

xi, 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [1998]

Summary:

Two important events in 1997 -- the balanced-budget deal and the completion of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) -- promise to shape U.S. military policy for the next several years. Unfortunately, they are at odds with each other.

The balanced budget accord will result in a real level of defense spending that is 8 percent lower in 2002 than in 1998. But the proportionate cuts in personnel and weaponry that the QDR calls for are only about half that size. Moreover, the U.S. military is near the end of its so-called "procurement holiday" and will soon have to buy more equipment.

Michael O'Hanlon suggests a way out of this budgetary fix. In contrast to the current U.S. military posture calling for the U.S. to be capable of waging two Desert Storm like wars at a time, he argues for a "Desert Storm plus Desert Shield plus Bosnia peacekeeping" capability, as well as selected economies in weapons modernization programs to save over $10 billion a year.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

081576443X

OCLC:

38410111