Financing national defense : policy and process

• Main Authors: Jones, L. R. (Author), Candreva, Philip J. (Author), DeVore, Marc R. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2012.
• Series: Research in public management.
• Subjects: United States. > Department of Defense > Appropriations and expenditures.; United States. > Department of Defense > Finance.; United States > Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures.; Technology & Engineering > Military Science.; Military engineering.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806615711
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-679-7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 489 pages)

A myth from the colonial period was that Americans could defend themselves by keeping a rifle in the closet and when needed, grab it, and march off to battle in times of crisis. Unfortunately, providing national defense is more complicated that that; indeed it was more complicated even during the Re...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. Budgeting in the federal government
• Chapter 2. History and development of federal government budgeting: Executive and legislative branch competition
• Chapter 3. Budgeting for national defense
• Chapter 4. The planning, programming, budgeting and execution system
• Chapter 5. Congress and the defense budget: From the cold war to the war on terrorism
• Chapter 6. Supplemental appropriations for national defense and the federal government
• Chapter 7. Budget execution in the federal government and the department of defense
• Chapter 8. Budget process participants in the pentagon
• Chapter 9. Financial management and defense business processes
• Chapter 10. Reform of ppbes: Where to next?
• Chapter 11. Restructuring, reducing budgets and debt while managing fiscal stress
• Chapter 12. United States defense and budgetary policy in the global context
• Bibliography
• About the authors. Subject Index.