Beyond Micromanagement: Congressional Budgeting for a Post-Cold War Military
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Stockton, Paul
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2005
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Summer 2005
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Critics of Congress often attack it for micromanaging the defense
budget-that is, for dictating how much to spend on particular weapons and
imposing other detailed requirements on the Department of Defense (DOD).
Those critics urge Congress to shift its attention toward broader issues of U.S.
military strategy, which for budgeting purposes concerns the size and overall
characteristics that U.S. forces should have. However, as the old saying goes,
beware of what you wish for; you might get it. Since 1990, key legislators have
launched a barrage of proposals on defense strategy. This activism highlights
the need to rethink how legislators link the details of the defense budget to broader
policy concerns, and how the end of the cold war is affecting the mechanisms
legislators use to shape defense spending.
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Beyond micromanagement: Congressional Budgeting for a post-Political Science Quarterly; Summer 1995; Vol. 110, No. 2; pg. 233
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