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This book provides a clear, accessible description of the defense budget’s journey through Congress each year. Focusing exclusively on the portion of the U.S. Army’s budget designated for program funding—or, the dollars used to purchase items such as trucks, rifles, and helicopters—this book elaborates on why weapon systems experience such volatile funding decisions by congressional committees while the overall Army and defense budgets differ only incrementally.
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Defense Acquisition University (2010).
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Data from “DoD Releases Fiscal 2010 Budget Proposal,” U.S. Department of Defense News Release No. 304-09, May 7, 2009, http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12652 (October 5, 2010). These figures do not include supplemental funding, or monies specific to combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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All photos provided courtesy of the U.S. Army through public domain.
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Tiron (2009).
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House Committee on Appropriations, Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010, Report of the Committee on Appropriations to Accompany H.R. 3326, 111th Cong., 1st sess., H. Rpt 111-230.
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Aaron Wildavsky, The Politics of the Budgetary Process (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964).
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Wildavsky (1986), p. 9.
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Demarest, H.B. (2017). Why the Defense Budget Is Worth Considering. In: US Defense Budget Outcomes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52301-9_1
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