MOSCOW. (Andrei Fedyashin, RIA Novosti political...
Prize.Contrary to his own vows to continue his drive to eliminate unnecessary, wasteful defense budget spending, the military program calls for a 3.4% increase in the Pentagon"s defense budget to an unheard-of $708 billion. However, counting all the hidden outlays and redistributed costs, the real figure will probably be closer to $900 billion, which is more than the total military spending of the 15 leading nations including China and Russia.
Allocations to the Department of Energy, responsible for maintenance of nuclear weapons, weapon development and nuclear tests, will grow by $11.2 billion (up 13.4%).
A careful reading of the latest Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR, initiated by the Congress in the mid-1990s to have an idea of the government"s military policies for the next four years) reveals that the United States will shift from "wholesale" war to "retail" conflicts. The QDR states that America will now prepare its forces for multiple conflicts in
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