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A volume in Research in Public Management Series Editor: Lawrence
R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School A myth from the colonial period
was that Americans could defend themselves by keeping a rifle in
the closet and when needed, grab it, and march off to battle in
times of crisis. Unfortunately, providing national defense is more
complicated that that; indeed it was more complicated even during
the Revolutionary war. General George Washington's struggles to
form a standing army supported by workable logistics and supply
processes and to get funding for both from the Revolutionary
Congress are well documented. Financing national defense requires
planning and resourcing in advance. Reacting at the instant of
crisis is too late. Building an educated, highly trained and
capable Armed Forces and the acquisition of defense weapons and
weapons systems has long lead times and involves making decisions
the consequences of which are likely to last for decades. These
decisions include how to recruit and retain military and civilian
personnel as well as designing, buying and fielding a vast array of
ground weapons, ships, aircraft and other weaponry. A decision to
buy a major defense weapons system for example sets in motion a
chain of other decisions that will affect the U.S., its allies and
enemies around the world. Implementation of such decisions is
financed through the U.S. federal government and Department of
Defense budget processes in a planned yet highly and pluralistic
and disaggregated system for determining how to advocate, acquire
and allocate scarce resources in a manner that culminates in
congressional and presidential approval. In this book we examine
the concepts and practices of defense financing, provide a detailed
description and analysis of resource policy decision making,
financial management and budget execution processes, and analyze
the most significant features of the national defense and U.S.
federal government resource decision and management system. The
book assesses the numerous factors, including those that
characterize the complex budget review and appropriation decision
making dynamics of Congress, that make U.S. defense finance and
budgeting different from any other system in the world. In
addition, in a concluding chapter the book compares U.S. defense
policy and budgeting to other nations in different regions of the
globe, drawing conclusions about the effects of U.S. defense policy
and defense financing abroad in regions including Europe, Russia,
the Middle-East and Asia.
A volume in Research in Public Management Series Editor: Lawrence
R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School A myth from the colonial period
was that Americans could defend themselves by keeping a rifle in
the closet and when needed, grab it, and march off to battle in
times of crisis. Unfortunately, providing national defense is more
complicated that that; indeed it was more complicated even during
the Revolutionary war. General George Washington's struggles to
form a standing army supported by workable logistics and supply
processes and to get funding for both from the Revolutionary
Congress are well documented. Financing national defense requires
planning and resourcing in advance. Reacting at the instant of
crisis is too late. Building an educated, highly trained and
capable Armed Forces and the acquisition of defense weapons and
weapons systems has long lead times and involves making decisions
the consequences of which are likely to last for decades. These
decisions include how to recruit and retain military and civilian
personnel as well as designing, buying and fielding a vast array of
ground weapons, ships, aircraft and other weaponry. A decision to
buy a major defense weapons system for example sets in motion a
chain of other decisions that will affect the U.S., its allies and
enemies around the world. Implementation of such decisions is
financed through the U.S. federal government and Department of
Defense budget processes in a planned yet highly and pluralistic
and disaggregated system for determining how to advocate, acquire
and allocate scarce resources in a manner that culminates in
congressional and presidential approval. In this book we examine
the concepts and practices of defense financing, provide a detailed
description and analysis of resource policy decision making,
financial management and budget execution processes, and analyze
the most significant features of the national defense and U.S.
federal government resource decision and management system. The
book assesses the numerous factors, including those that
characterize the complex budget review and appropriation decision
making dynamics of Congress, that make U.S. defense finance and
budgeting different from any other system in the world. In
addition, in a concluding chapter the book compares U.S. defense
policy and budgeting to other nations in different regions of the
globe, drawing conclusions about the effects of U.S. defense policy
and defense financing abroad in regions including Europe, Russia,
the Middle-East and Asia.
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