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The Six Blind Men and the Elephant: Differing Views on the U S Defense Budget

. (These proposals subsequently failed.) The net difference between those two views is well over $150 billion dollars in a single year. In an ideal world, the defense budget debate would be fact-based and informed. Of course, no one should be under any illusion that final defense budgets spring fully formed from dispassionate strategic analyses. The last word on defense spending always results from the clash of strategic thought and the reigning political environment. In the United States, such quarrels go back to the birth of the nation. George Washington did not just fight the British. He also constantly fought the Continental Congress for money to support the impoverished colonial army. In 1941, with war approaching, Gen. George Marshall repeatedly quarreled over the need for more money with President Franklin Roosevelt, who was caught between competing political interests. More recently, Defense Secretary Robert Gates battled to establish a floor under defense funding, s

WWII - U S Forces in the Philippines: Too Little, Too Late

WWII - U.S. Forces in the Philippines: Too Little, Too Late In the South Pacific, U.S. forces in the Philippines felt the brunt of Japanese military might on December 8, 1941. Here s What You Need to Know: The ultimate fate of the Philippines had been determined long before the first bombs fell at Clark Field. In the popular history of World War II, the assertion that the United States was caught unprepared in Hawaii and the Philippines has become widely accepted as fact. However, in the case of the Philippines, the proper word should be “under-prepared,” as this term more accurately represents the true situation that existed in the Philippine Islands in the early morning hours of December 8, 1941.

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