How to Be a Cheap Hawk: The 1999 and 2000 Defense Budgets

by Michael E. O'Hanlon

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Two important events in 1997--the balanced-budget deal and the completion of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)--promise to shape U.S. military policy for the next several years. Unfortunately, they are at odds with each other. The balanced budget accord will result in a real level of defense spending that is 8 percent lower in 2002 than in 1998. But the proportionate cuts in personnel and weaponry that the QDR calls for are only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081576443X
• ISBN13: 9780815764434
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"