Jun 1, 2005

By Dr Dennis S Ippolito

Author: Dr Dennis S Ippolito The author focuses on the spending policy, deficit and debt, and retirement and healthcare entitlement dynamics that will make it difficult, if not impossible, to fund current defense plans. Transformational strategies, he concludes, must be adjusted to lower and more volatile future spending levels. The most important

Sep 1, 2001

By Dr Dennis S Ippolito

Author: Dr Dennis S Ippolito The defense budget remains one of the central shaping features of U.S. national security and national military strategy. To understand what is possible in terms of defense transformation, one must first have a firm grasp of the budgetary context of strategic decisions. The author shows that defense will continue to

Feb 1, 1996

By Dr Dennis S Ippolito

Author: Dr Dennis S Ippolito Defense economist Dennis S. Ippolito dissects Federal budget practices over the past several decades, with a particular focus on sources and trends in our national deficit spending syndrome. Underlying his message is an unsettling truth, that no matter how the current debate over balancing the budget turns out, future