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Spend More on Defense? Let's Focus on Spending Better

Spend More on Defense? Let's Focus on Spending Better

Spend More on Defense? Let's Focus on Spending Better

The leaders of Congress' National Defense Strategy commission lay out their priorities. Jane Harman and Eric Edelman. |. June 11, 2023.

Spend More on Defense? Let's Focus on Spending Better

Included in the bill to extend our nation's debt limit is a cap on defense spending at 3 percent above last year's levels, matching President ...

Spend More on Defense? Let's Focus on Spending Better

The leaders of Congress' National Defense Strategy commission lay out their priorities.

GovExec on LinkedIn: Spend More on Defense? Let's Focus on ...

Each year, budgets are made and examined, but now more than ever, the government is cracking down on where and how the Department of Defense distributes ...

America Spends Less On Its Military Than You Think. Look At The ...

The U.S. spends more on defense than other nations, but relative to the size of its economy military outlays are far from excessive.

Commission on the National Defense Strategy - RAND

The Cold War demanded a national mobilization for military service, an economy geared more toward produc- tion for national security, and a ...

Budget Basics: National Defense - Peter G. Peterson Foundation

The U.S. spent $820 billion on national defense during fiscal year (FY) 2023 according to the Office of Management and Budget, which amounted to 13 percent ...

Lethal, Resilient, Agile Joint Force Basis for Defense Budget Request

The fiscal 2024 defense budget request is driven by the requirements of the National Defense Strategy and fully enmeshed with Secretary of ...

Defense Spending Can and Should Be Cut | Cato at Liberty Blog

US military Fiscal hawk Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has an article in The Bulwark titled “In Defense of Defense Spending.”

A Conservative Defense Budget for Fiscal Year 2025

The Heritage Foundation's conservative defense budget calls for a 3 percent increase in defense spending with major internal reallocations and reforms.

'A Time for American Leadership': Remarks by Secretary of Defense ...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivered the keynote address at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, Calif.,

Opinion | How the Pentagon could spend more smartly at a critical time

War and peace have one unlikely thing in common: It isn't hard to write a defense budget for either. Governments at war turn the spigots on; ...

Is it time to rethink U.S. defense spending? - YouTube

Chair of the Commission on the National Defense Strategy Jane Harman discusses the need to prepare the U.S. public through smarter defense ...

More Spending Alone Won't Fix the Pentagon's Biggest Problem

While, higher defense spending is necessary, though, it will not relieve us of the need for a clear strategy, because even significant such increases will not ...

Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum is closed today (11/06/2024) and tomorrow (11/07/2024) due to power outage and brush fires in the area. Thank ...

Let's Cut Our Ridiculous Defense Budget - The New York Times

Mr. Beinart is a contributing opinion writer who focuses on politics and foreign policy. April 7, 2021. President Biden loves spending money. Last month ...

Estimating China's Defense Spending: How to Get It Wrong (and ...

According to our calculation, China will spend an estimated $471 billion on defense in 2024, or around 36 percent of comparable US defense spending of about $1 ...

Chapter: 7 Options for Defense and Other Domestic Spending

Although much of the debate about the federal budget focuses on the projected growth in costs for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, they are only three ...

What the “Defunding the Pentagon” Articles Don't Tell You

National defense now consumes the smallest portion of the U.S. federal budget in a hundred years—15%—and continues to shrink ...

Bad Idea: Demanding Allies Spend Two Percent of GDP on Defense

Defense spending as a percentage of GDP is a fundamentally flawed metric that does not fully capture the contribution of allies and does little to incentivize ...