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Budgeting for national defense is a complex endeavor, particularly for a nation like the U.S. that assumes global responsibility and strives to have the most advanced and lethal force on earth. It is necessary – and challenging – to balance the myriad requirements between current and future readiness, across warfare areas and military services, between having state of the art capability with sufficient capacity, and among people, hardware, and the activities people do with that hardware. As analytically difficult as that problem is, it is embedded in the political budgeting processes and national security must be balanced with every other function of government and there must also be cooperation across branches of government. This text explores that complex endeavor.
Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1. National Defense Policy and Resource Decision Making: Unique Challenges.
Chapter 2. The Federal Government Budget Process.
Chapter 3. Budgeting for National Defense: Complicated but Workable.
Chapter 4. The Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Execution System.
Chapter 5. Congress and the Defense Budget: From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.
Chapter 6. Supplemental Appropriations for National Defense.
Chapter 7. Defense Budget Execution.
Chapter 8. Budget Process Participants: The Pentagon.
Chapter 9. Budget Process Participants: The Claimants.
Chapter 10. Financial Management and Defense Budgeting.
Chapter 11. Budgeting and Management of Defense Weapons Acquisition.
Chapter 12. National Defense and Federal Government Budgeting and Management Reform: History, Transformation and the Future.
Definition of Acronyms.
Bibliography.
Index.