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The $650 Billion Bargain ─ The Case for Modest Growth in America's Defense Budget
- 系列名：The Marshall Papers
- ISBN13：9780815729570
- 出版社：Brookings Inst Pr
- 作者：Michael E. O'Hanlon
- 裝訂／頁數：平裝／160頁
- 規格：21cm*13.3cm*1.3cm (高/寬/厚)
- 出版日：2016/08/23
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U.S. defense spending isn’t excessive and, in fact, should continue to grow because it’s both affordable and necessary in today's challenging world.
The United States spends a lot of money on defense?$607 billion in the current fiscal year. But Brookings national security scholar Michael O'Hanlon argues that is roughly the right amount given the overall size of the national economy and continuing U.S. responsibilities around the world. If anything, he says spending should increase modestly under the next president, remaining near 3 percent of gross domestic product.
President Obama's latest budget called for spending to drop to about $575 billion, in constant 2016 dollars, in 2020. But that proposal is not realistic given the current state of spending and the military’s operations overseas.
Recommendations in this book by one of the nation’s foremost defense experts differ from the president's budget plan in two key ways:
First, the author sees a mismatch in the Pentagon’s current plans between ends and means, and the book’s recommendations address this. In other words, the country needs to spend enough money to carry out its military missions and commitments.
Second, O'Hanlon recommends dropping a plan to cut the size of the Army from the current 475,000 active-duty soldiers to 450,000.
The author’s bottom line is that the U.S. national defense budget is entirely affordable?relative to the size of the economy, relative to past levels of effort by this country in the national security domain, and relative especially to the costs of failing to uphold a stable international order. Even at a modestly higher price, it will be the best $650 billion bargain going, and a worthy investment in this country’s security and its long-term national power.
The United States spends a lot of money on defense?$607 billion in the current fiscal year. But Brookings national security scholar Michael O'Hanlon argues that is roughly the right amount given the overall size of the national economy and continuing U.S. responsibilities around the world. If anything, he says spending should increase modestly under the next president, remaining near 3 percent of gross domestic product.
President Obama's latest budget called for spending to drop to about $575 billion, in constant 2016 dollars, in 2020. But that proposal is not realistic given the current state of spending and the military’s operations overseas.
Recommendations in this book by one of the nation’s foremost defense experts differ from the president's budget plan in two key ways:
First, the author sees a mismatch in the Pentagon’s current plans between ends and means, and the book’s recommendations address this. In other words, the country needs to spend enough money to carry out its military missions and commitments.
Second, O'Hanlon recommends dropping a plan to cut the size of the Army from the current 475,000 active-duty soldiers to 450,000.
The author’s bottom line is that the U.S. national defense budget is entirely affordable?relative to the size of the economy, relative to past levels of effort by this country in the national security domain, and relative especially to the costs of failing to uphold a stable international order. Even at a modestly higher price, it will be the best $650 billion bargain going, and a worthy investment in this country’s security and its long-term national power.
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Michael E. O’Hanlon is research director for the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, where he specializes in defense policy. He has written extensively on Northeast Asian security and has traveled frequently to the war zones of the broader Middle East on research trips over the past decade.
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