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Introduction: America's Defense: How Much Is Enough Now? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--AMERICA'S DEFENSE: HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH NOW? |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1990 |
| Size: 623 Words, 3,799 Characters |
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Hardly a day passes without a fresh pronouncement that a new era of peace has arrived and the United States needs to rethink its security needs and spending priorities. Both conservatives and liberals agree that some change is warranted, but the questions of how much and in what direction are very much in dispute.
These questions focus on the U.S. defense budget now being debated in Congress. The budget submitted by the Bush administration has come under heavy fi...
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...merely and intensification of an ongoing trend." He concludes that America can afford to spend more on defense if it needs to, but does not need to continue the current level of defense spending in order to maintain economic prosperity. Therefore, he says, the "amount of resources that the United States devotes to the defense establishment should be determined on…national security grounds."
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