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About Stephen Glain
See more books from this AuthorThe Soviet threat (and communist China) would keep alarmists and neoconservatives frothing at the mouth through wars in Korea and Vietnam, fed by defense contractors, RAND Corporation analysts and nuclear-bomb fears—despite ample evidence that the Soviet Union was “sclerotic” and incapable of pos...
| Read Full Review of State vs. Defense: The Battle...Mark Moyar reviews "State Vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America's Empire"
by Stephen Glain.
With federal budget cuts looming, both the State Department and the Defense Department are scrambling to justify their budgets and to explain why they are each better qualified than the other to manage spending when their tasks overlap.
Aug 23 2011 | Read Full Review of State vs. Defense: The Battle...(By comparison, China, Russia, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea, the five countries Pentagon planners routinely trot out as conventional threats to the national well-being, have a cumulative security budget of just over $200 billion.) Quietly, gradually—and inevitably, given the weight of its colossal...
Aug 29 2011 | Read Full Review of State vs. Defense: The Battle...A Government Accountability Office report for 2010 cited “serious financial management problems at the Department of Defense that made its financial statements unauditable.” How did it come to this, with the American citizenry groaning under the weight of so massive a defense budget?
Sep 25 2011 | Read Full Review of State vs. Defense: The Battle...An aggregated and normalized score based on 25 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes