Finally, Washington should stop treating the defense budget as a form of foreign aid.
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At the same time, Beijing promised to publish more information about its defense budget.
What is more, given the anticipated cutbacks in the defense budget, matters may get worse still.
Strategic nuclear systems comprise a mere 13 per cent of the overall defense budget.
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With the defense budget being cut, can we afford to ignore cheaper training alternatives?
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The second step in our approach is to find additional savings in our defense budget.
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Also present were senior representatives of the Congressional Budget Office and the Defense Budget Project.
Defense shares need the overall defense budget on the rise, big war deterrence spending.
The United States is looking at a range of ways, including in our defense budget.
And it must do so within a defense budget being shrunk to help contain mammoth fiscal deficits.
After a decade of war, for example, there will be some reductions in the U.S. defense budget.
There is also a strong belief that peace will come with a huge cut in defense budget.
Newspaper headlines report that the Obama administration is planning to make significant cuts in the missile defense budget.
Even war spending is subjected to the same scrutiny that the base defense budget and other spending is.
In fact, the defense budget will still be larger than it was toward the end of the Bush administration.
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There are certain aspects of the defense budget that I will not touch.
To give you some sense of perspective, our entire defense budget is about half a trillion dollars a year.
To achieve a similar cut in the United States, we'd have to abolish Social Security and the defense budget.
This fiscal myopia is especially pronounced in the defense budget, where the government makes most of its capital investments.
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So they're saying they're going to give a tax cut equivalent to our entire defense budget every single year.
For his part, Ron Paul maintains that the defense budget is not being cut, just its rate of growth.
You could cut the entire defense budget and still be running a deficit.
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And that means trimming the defense budget, while still meeting our security needs.
To some, this amount is prohibitively high when added to a defense budget they already claim must be reduced.
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It is engaged in defense budget cuts that will, predictably, make itmore so.
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Actually, the defense budget and the defense authorization bill, for a long time, has not really been a partisan issue.
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He suggests the alliance adopt another measure: how much of its defense budget a nation spends on personnel, including pensions.
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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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This danger is likely to be heightened by the synergistic effect of defense budget cuts in constraining U.S. military technology developments.
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