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The article presents a speech by Robert Charles, president of the Charles Group LLC, delivered at the National Guard Counterdrug Conference in Orlando, Florida on March 26, 2019. Topics included the work of the National Guard in national security requirements to shape State Plans, resource allocation for the U.S. Department of Defense and the 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

The author discusses the U.S. military policy of overmatch, the development of resources to support the armed forces. He mentions the expansion of military readiness in all areas including weapons and personnel, the amount of spending by the Dept. of Defense to maintain this level of readiness, and the impact on foreign and social policy.

The article examines apparent accounting fraud conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) designed to misled Congress and increase the department's budget regardless of military necessity. It cites investigations conducted by the periodical which found $21 trillion worth of financial transactions that cannot be accounted for.

The article looks at the debate over possible cuts to the U.S. Department of Defense budget. It analyzes the level of U.S. military spending as of 2012 and its level if proposed budget cuts were implemented relative to the overall size of the U.S. economy and places those figures in historical context. It notes that some argue against cuts in U.S. defense spending out of concern for job losses. In response, the authors present data showing that a given amount of government spending in areas such as education or health care creates more jobs than the same sum spent on defense. The role of the Defense Department in funding technological research and development (R&D) is also discussed.

The article presents the speech "Our Job Is Not to Accept Destiny, Our Job Is to Create Destiny" by U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, delivered at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. on October 11, 2011 in which he discussed national defense, the threat from al-Qaeda terrorist organization, and the Defense Department's cost control initiatives.

The article discusses the increasing U.S. defense budget and criticizes U.S. Department of Defense policies that have caused the budget to swell to more than $700 billion. The author points to spending on soldiers as a primary reason for the high budget with high salaries, benefits, and health care costs as factors. The Pentagon's procurement process and spending for unnecessary equipment such as the F-22 fighter jet, the B-2 bomber, and nuclear submarines are pointed to as other reasons. The efforts of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to curtail this spending are described.

A speech is presented that was delivered by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas on May 8, 2010. Topics include the legacy of U.S. General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the cost of maintaining armed forces, and the Defense Department's budget.

Focuses on U.S. Senator John McCain and his views on the 2002 defense appropriations bill. His reputation as a critic of wasteful Pentagon spending; His criticism of a $20 billion Air Force plan to lease refueling tankers from the Boeing Aircraft Co; McCain's demands of an investigation of the Boeing deal and his statement that it is war profiteering; Specifics of the Boeing leases. INSET: Hardened target.

The author discusses the issue of accounting regarding the appropriations and expenditures of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). He mentions the convoluted methods of accounting used by the DoD. the difficulties in conducting audits, and the amount of waste and fraud discovered by Senator Charles Grassley and other legislators.

The author offers an analysis of trends in international relations and critique of U.S. foreign policy under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Topics include U.S. military activities in Afghanistan and elsewhere, the trend toward authoritarianism, and how domestic policy choices affect the U.S.'s strength in international relations.

Considers how the high-tech United States military is more efficient than ever, yet falling budgets and multiplying missions threaten to overwhelm it. Services feeling underpaid and overworked; Dollar cost of missions; Where the troops are; High-tech vision of the future; Plans to digitize the battlefield; Importance of controlling information; Men versus machines.

Examines the effects that a cut in defense spending will likely have on the military-industrial complex. Opportunity to diversify; Entry further into the international commercial markets; Cheaper products and better technology; Difficulties of living in a commercial world or a defense world--impossible to do both; Pentagon's judicious use of research-and-development budget.

Discusses the upcoming changes in the United States military forces, triggered by the apparent end of the superpower struggle, and calls for cutting the Pentagon budget from Congress. How to redefine America's defense strategy; The START agreement; Britain, France and West Germany fear rapid cuts in manpower could hobble NATO; New threats in the Persian Gulf. INSET: Training for `high-intensity peace' (comments on the new....

Discusses defense budget cutbacks and questions whether the expected $300 billion build-down jeopardizes America's security and whether despite the Pentagon's poor track record in distinguishing good weapons from bad, the tightened budget will demand tough money-saving decisions.

Discusses the Bush Administration's $295 billion defense budget and how the United States is planning for future wars in light of changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Challenges; Current military state; Balance of power; Budget cuts and defense spending.

Comments on the United States' defense budget under the administration of President Richard Nixon. Increase in defense procurement; Controversial navy projects that are getting a boost in the fiscal budget; Budget allocated for defense research and development; Appropriations for the Army; Defense spending, such as the purchase of the Sparrow; Army's request for funds for equipment to replace the materials turned over to South Vietnam; Budget message of Nixon.

Reports on research and development works on chemical and biological warfare (CBW) being carried out in various academic institutions in the U.S. Amount spent by the U.S. Department of Defense on CBW research and procurement programs; Information on various centers for testing CBW munitions; Overview of CBW research works in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy; List of colleges and universities that hold CBW research contracts.

The article discusses the U.S. Congress's National Defense Strategy Commission, which advocates for increasing U.S. military spending for the U.S. Department of Defense. An overview of 21st century U.S. foreign policy, including the cost of the military, and civilian deaths from and costs of U.S. wars, is provided.

The article explores the U.S. Department of Defense's (DOD) option to field smaller, less expensive and less capable drones. It discusses the strategic environment and limitations high-end drone technology faces in contested environments, the evolution of drone force structure and military emphasis on higher-end capabilities, budgetary evolution of drone programs and future budgetary challenges, and potential solutions to future budgetary and strategic challenges.

The article reports that the U.S. Department of Defense is going into October 2017 with yet another stop-gap continuing resolution. Defense Secretary James Mattis and Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona oppose the CR calling it disruptive and having negative consequences for the military. The Navy is asking for an increase in the budget for the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers from 2.8 billion dollars in 2017 to 4.6 billion dollars in 2018.

The article discusses several proposals contained in the defense budget presented by the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama for the 2015 fiscal year, and political controversy likely to surround them. Issues addressed include recommendations to retire the U-2 spy plane, abandon work on the U.S. Navy's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft, and renew funding for the U.S. Air Force's Combat Rescue Helicopter.

The article focuses on consideration of military readiness expansion in the U.S. 2018 fiscal budget under administration of president Donald Trump. Topics discussed include illustration of concerns by the Armed Services Committees over military spending of Trump; involvement of Democrats in resistance of an increment in spending for the Defense Department; and planning of the U.S. Marine Corps for possession of F-35 military fighter aircrafts.

The article looks at the U.S. military budget and examines how policymakers should approach defense spending. It notes the views of former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates on appropriates for the Department of Defense and also covers budgets under the administration of President Barack Obama. Particular attention is given to the effects of the 2011 Budget Control Act and sequestration measures.

Discusses the various criticisms thrown at United States Defense Secretary Richard Cheney by the opposition for his defense budget proposal. Amount reserved for the country's defense as agreed upon by Cheney, budget director Richard Darman and President George Bush; Primary argument used by Cheney to justify the amount that he proposed for the defense budget; Accusation that Cheney had put the defense budget in political free fall, making it vulnerable to legislative cuts, by not building a strategic rationale for his budget in speeches and briefings; Career history of Cheney and why a lot of politicians respect him.

Provides some insights into budget issues and policies in the U.S. under the administration of President Ronald Reagan. Defense budget proposals; Budget deficit; Military policies; Indications of public administration relevant to finance and expenditures.

The article reports that the U.S. House Defense Appropriations bill increased funding for Advanced Research Projects Agency's Computing Systems and Communications technology research program by $426 million. At the same time, the bill directed a cut in $900 million from funds specified for university research. The High Performance Computing and Communications fared well for Defense in the narrow sense. Funding was increased even above the administration's request. But, as the right hand was giving money, the left hand was picking the pockets of the research programs directed to universities. The truth is expenditures of tax money inevitably will have political content. It could be argued that such financial horse-trading provides much of the coinage by which deals and compromises on other contentious public issues are struck. In particular, the military has a particularly long and rich tradition of regional distribution with respect to bases, construction contracts, and so forth.

Reports that President George Bush has proposed a reduction of United States forces in Europe. The purpose of the proposal was twofold: to use the weakening Soviet position to justify lower military spending and to provide Gorbachev with a tangible US concession when he addresses his critics at the Soviet Communist Party Plenum this week. Unintended effect in Washington; New target.

The article notes that U.S. Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York was criticized for misunderstanding the context of a story on the Department of Defense's failed audit.

Discusses the impact of the projected defense shortfall in the United States. Underlying cause of the inability to revamp military institutions; Provisions under the defense authorization budget for Fiscal 2001; Commitment by presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush to increase military spending.

The author, U.S. senator and 2016 U.S. presidential candidate Marco Rubio, outlines his campaign's foreign policy platform. He argues that the foreign policy of U.S. president Barack Obama must be reversed, particularly concerning issues such as U.S. involvement concerning the spread of the Islamic militant group Islamic State, Iran's nuclear weapons program, and the U.S. defense budget. He proposes a foreign policy based on the three pillars that include American strength abroad, U.S. protection of an open international economy, and moral clarity of U.S. leadership. He also discusses his plans concerning Iran, the Russian annexation of Crimea, and U.S. relations with China.

Reports that the Bush Administration's failure to promptly establish a Pentagon team is undermining efforts to set defense spending priorities, causing ripple effects that it is delaying programs and might weaken Pentagon influence. Budget deficit and effects on defense programs; Cuts; Arms control initiatives; Possible areas of savings.

Western governments and aircraft manufacturers are faced with increasingly stark choices in next-generation fighter programs, due to the combination of high development costs, shrinking tactical combat aircraft export markets, and declining defense budgets. The fundamental underlying question is how best to balance the limited research and development funds available, and are forcing tradeoffs and raising concerns. Details.

Reports that the United States Congress approved a defense budget for 1998 that will provide for the programs of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) but fails to fund additional B-2 bombers or cut off US peacekeeping operations in Bosnia. Breakdown of major accounts in the budget; Appropriation levels for Air Force modernization and missile programs; Diagram of the Patriot PAC-3 missile.

Looks at the budget aspects of several major United States defense weapons programs in light of the fiscal year 1998 budget request. Programs being the B-2 bomber, F-22 fighter, Joint Strike Fighter, C-17 airlifter, F/A-18E/F strike fighter, V-22 Osprey, RAH-66 Comanche, tactical airlift, precision-guided munitions, national missile defense, theater missile defenses, and Army and Marine helicopters; Information on costs, contractors, and alternatives to the programs.

The article discusses developments in the operation of the U.S. Defense Department as of April 2015, particularly the issues involving the department's fiscal 2016 budget. Among the issues are the proposed elimination of 8,200 Army Guard soldiers in 2016 and 7,000 in 2017, and the plan to takeover the Army Guard's 192 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. Also cited is the comment by U.S. Congressman Steve Womack on the developments.

The article discusses the budget allocation for the U.S. Department of Defense. Topics include the negotiation techniques employed by the government body in its budget proposals, the three options determined by congressional members to address the proposed defense budget, and the challenges faced by congressional appropriators in their examination of the proposed defense budget.