Budgeting for Defense Maintaining Todays Forces

This study was prepared with regard to the budget request for nat. defense that the 107th Congress was to consider in 2001, presents the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) estimate of the cost of sustaining today's mil. forces. Chapters: current threats to U.S. security; current U.S. mil. strategy; what factors drive budget requests for defense?; the scope of CBO's estimate of a sustaining budget for nat. defense; CBO's estimate of a sustaining budget for the DoD & for defense activities in other agencies; the limitations of CBO's estimate; reducing budget requirements; & increasing the defense budget to equal CBO's estimate of a sustaining level for today's forces. Charts & tables.Crippen, Dan L. is the author of 'Budgeting for Defense Maintaining Todays Forces' with ISBN 9780756723385 and ISBN 0756723388.