Federal Budget Policy and Defense Strategy

Authors

Dennis S. Ippolito Dr.

Files

Description

Defense economist Dennis S. Ippolito dissects Federal budget practices over the past several decades, with a particular focus on sources and trends in our national deficit spending syndrome. Underlying his message is an unsettling truth, that no matter how the current debate over balancing the budget turns out, future cases for the Army Budget are going to have to be made in an even more challenging spending environment as discretionary spending margins shrink. Army professionals, now more than ever, need to be articulate advocates of landpower for the 21st century. But before articulate and reasoned arguments can be made for the kind of force that will ensure that the nation does, indeed, build and maintain the world's best Army (or Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps), one must take into account the realities of the Federal budget.

ISBN

1627

Publication Date

2-1-1996

Keywords

Budget Policy; Defense Strategy; deficit; budget spending; Ippolito

Recommended Citation

Dennis S. Ippolito Dr., Federal Budget Policy and Defense Strategy ( US Army War College Press, 1996),
https://press.armywarcollege.edu/monographs/878