CIAO DATE: 12/2011
October 2011
Project on Defense Alternatives
Recent Obama administration defense budget requests and proposals all fall within a narrow range of possible expenditures for the 2013-2023 period. All have kept the Pentagon’s base budget above Cold War spending peaks. The President’s 13 April proposal is no exception. It is a modest step that, at best, aims to retract future budget plans by 6.5 percent or $400 billion.
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