And it must do so within a defense budget being shrunk to help contain mammoth fiscal deficits.
To some, this amount is prohibitively high when added to a defense budget they already claim must be reduced.
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And I firmly believe, and I think the American people understand, that we can keep our military strong and our nation secure with a defense budget that continues to be larger than roughly the next 10 countries combined.
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True enough, but if so, and to be consistent, they must seek cuts in a defense budget that similarly fosters dependency among higher earners whose income is almost solely a function of a massive budget funded by the rest of us.
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In addition to a growing defense budget and a trend toward outsourcing to private contractors, SAIC has benefited from deep ties to the intelligence and national-security community.
With a shrinking defense budget and a still uncertain economy, returning civilian-soldiers may find a pink slip waiting for them because of current downsizing and corporate cost-saving initiatives.
In fact, it is not really a sizing standard at all, but rather a way of justifying reductions in the size of the military in the face of a declining defense budget.
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First, U.S. investment in its own research and development technology base is likely to be significantly reduced as a result of defense budget cuts.
Sometime in the next few months Congress will approve a fiscal 2011 defense budget, and General Electric will know whether its five-year struggle with two administrations to stay in the fighter engine business has been successful.
Finally, although today is about our defense strategy, I want to close with a word about the defense budget that will flow from this strategy.
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All these (existing or incipient) crises are being met by an America response whose fecklessness and passivity seems as much a reflection of a determination not to endanger defense budget cuts as it is a failure to appreciate their full implications.
Before President Bush or the Congress act on what can only be described as a prescription for radical surgery on the defense budget, I urge that a second opinion be secured.
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Let me be clear, I am not among those who believe that we ought to use the defense budget as a jobs program or that we should be pursuing military programs for other than legitimate defense purposes.
There is also a strong belief that peace will come with a huge cut in defense budget.
He suggests the alliance adopt another measure: how much of its defense budget a nation spends on personnel, including pensions.
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The only argument against a sequester, at least among conservatives, is that a sequester would impose too much of a burden on the defense budget.
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After all, such expenditures come at a time when the defense budget is being dramatically cut - even as wartime operations continue in two countries.
Finally, Washington should stop treating the defense budget as a form of foreign aid.
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In a seven hundred billion dollar defense budget, there's bound to be some waste and inefficiency.
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Not to mention imminent sequestration which will ravage our defense budget at a time when we need strengthening.
But I'm concerned about what happens to programs like that when we consider cuts of up to a trillion dollars from the defense budget.
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Why is there such a disproportionate impact on the defense budget?
That will be so no matter how much is taken out of the defense budget as a result of the not-so-grand bargain struck by congressional leaders.
It has been a nuclear power for some time, but this has imposed a huge burden on its defense budget, not least in keeping the nuclear arsenal secure from terrorists.
Consequently, the Center believes that it would be foolish to leap to the conclusion that the United States can safely regard its defense budget as a slush fund, available to be raided at will for aiding the Soviets or other initiatives ostensibly undertaken in the name of national security.
In reality, a substantial part of the U.S. defense budget actually is not for defense but instead is a jobs program.
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In the bottom five, Italy spends nearly a three-quarters of its defense budget on personnel, Belgium just over that, and Romania 80%.
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At less than one-fifth of 1 percent of the defense budget, cutting homeland missile defense will hardly make a dent in the federal deficit.
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