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The changing dynamics of U.S. defense spending / edited by Leon V. Sigal.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Defense--Appropriations and expenditures.
- United States.
- United States--Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A behind-the-scenes look at the environment for US defence policy and budgeting. It shows how the political base for defence spending is eroding and that the economic benefits of defence spending and of foreign military sales are increasingly concentrated.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The U S Defense Spending Context; 3 The Shrinking Military Pork Barrel The Changing Distribution of Pentagon Spending 1986 1996; 4 Playing the Add on Game in Congress The Increasing Importance of Constituent Interests and Budget Constraints in Determining Defense Policy; 5 News Media Coverage of the Defense Budget; 6 Jobs Jobs Jobs and the Defense Industrial Base What Did Seawolf Save; 7 Restructuring the American Defense Industry; 8 False Expectations Can Arms Exports Make Up for Cuts in Pentagon Procurement; For Further Reading; Index
- About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400624537
- 9780313028625
- 0313028621
- OCLC:
- 55685079
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