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Shaping Future Defense Budgets (Paperback)
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Shaping Future Defense Budgets (Paperback)
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This paper assesses key issues in U.S. defense spending in the next
decade and is intended to serve as a guide to analyzing the fiscal
year 2006 budget submission. Wartime expenses aside, the big
spending increases of recent years seem unlikely to be repeated far
into the future. Persistent federal deficits and growing domestic
entitlement programs will constrain the amount of money that can be
spent on military preparedness. The defense budget may level off
just as it should rise to accommodate high operating costs and
mounting requirements for military transformation. If so, budget
constraints will compel a concerted effort to spend available
defense funds as wisely as possible. Spending patterns and
priorities will change, and tradeoffs will be necessary. If
pressures on the defense budget increase, the biggest challenge
facing the Department of Defense (DOD) will be determining how best
to pursue two key transformation goals. The first goal is
strengthening ground forces and related joint capabilities for
expeditionary operations along the "southern arc of instability" in
the near to mid term. The second goal is enhancing strategic
dominance over future peer adversaries over the long term through
acquisition of new platforms, space systems, and similar high-tech
assets. Within this framework, DOD will need to address other
weighty issues. Should investments in ground forces increase? If
so, what priorities should be pursued? Can savings be extracted
from support programs and from the operations and maintenance
(O&M) budget to help fund investments? If so, how? Should
spending on basic research increase? If so, can development of new
technologies be accelerated while controlling costs? How should
scarce procurement funds be allocated among new weapons emerging
from research, development, testing, and evaluation? What is the
best budget strategy for the long haul? Should the U.S. government
create an overall national security budget for the interagency
community? Careful analysis of each of these issues is necessary,
individually and collectively. The budget and program decisions
flowing from the analysis will have major implications for future
U.S. forces. This study recommends focusing on enhancing
expeditionary warfare capabilities, while not denuding long-term
transformation. In particular, it argues that, if DOD is to pursue
ambitious transformation plans for both goals, it will need to find
savings elsewhere.
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