Budget

Foreign Affairs has a fascinating article by Richard Betts in its November/December issue that argues that the United States has developed an almost completely irrational defense spending policy:
If Rip Van Winkle had fallen asleep in the Pentagon’s budgeting office 20 years ago and awoke today, his first reaction would be that nothing had changed. President [...]

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