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...he very point of the Pentagon's quadrennial review of its military planning is to take account of changes in the world that affect this country's defense needs...
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...True, the Department of Defense (DOD)'s annual budget has declined steadily since the mid-1980s' Reagan arms build-up (down from $405 billion in 1985 to $268 billion last year-both figures in 1997 dollars), but that should not obscure the real issue: Given the end of the cold war, why are we still spending so much...
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...Korb (New York Times, May 22) recommends a plan that would equip the United States for waging one full-scale war, while simultaneously handling a number of smaller peace-keeping missions abroad...
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...As now projected, the Clinton administration plans to add to DOD's budget in that time frame and to increase spending for new weapons by 40 percent...
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...According to Korb, this could be done while allowing the United States to accrue budget savings of $100 billion over the next five years...
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...In point of fact, DOD's budget this year is larger than the next eight leading national defense budgets combined (as calculated by the Center for Defense Information), and five-and-one-half times larger than second-place Russia's ($48 billion...
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...Yet even military analysts like William E. Odom of the Hudson Institute (Foreign Affairs, July/August 1997) and Lawrence J. Korb of the Brookings Institution (an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration), argue that a new defense strategy is required for a new era...
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...The better part of a decade after the demise of the Soviet Union, the Pentagon has let stand a defense doctrine inherited from the Bush administration: America ought to be able to fight two major wars simultaneously in different parts of the world without the assistance of allies...
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...We now account for more than half the world export market in weapons, including 70 percent of sales to the third world-a percentage that is sure to rise now that the Clinton administration has mistakenly lifted a twenty-year ban on arms sales to Latin America...
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...And do these bloated outlays address the real needs of our citizens, let alone those of the developing nations who are paying dearly for imported arms...
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...When Secretary Cohen presented the 1997 review, he left intact the two-war doctrine that includes a ten-division army, a navy with twelve aircraft-carrier battle groups, and an air force sporting twenty fighting-wings...
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