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...Pentagon's 2009 budget request is the highest--after accounting for inflation--since WW II. But because of U.S. economic growth, military spending as a share of the national pie is smaller than in prior conflicts. [The following descriptive text appears within a diagram...
...rate of increase unsurpassed in any period of comparable length since World War II. To make matters worse, on Monday, President Bush asked for $515.4 billion for the peacetime military establishment in 2009—a $35.9 billion increase over his 2008 request. This yawning defense budget may seem a necessary evil in light of the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, until we realize that the costs of these engagements are not factored into the proposed half-trillion dollar baseline budget. Bush has made a $70 billion supplemental request for his pet projects, bringing the total projected military budget...
Hyman cited the year-old University Science and Engineering Committee, which was chartered with a $50-million budget, as a likely funding source for these projects...
...single mission in either theater," Gates said. That's the kind of statement that sends generals up the wall - not only because it's true, but because it's the Secretary of Defense who's saying it. And the generals know that the next time some eager-beaver congressional budget-cutters want to trim Pentagon spending, they're going to roll out that quote...
...created two years ago after the Undergraduate Council ceded responsibility for campus-wide event planning to an independent body. The CEB was endowed with a $200,000 annual budget from University Hall to organize five or six major events each year...