Overpaying the Pentagon: how we can meet our security needs for less than $500 billion.(Dispatches)
American Prospect, The, September, 2003 by Korb, Lawrence J.
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WHEN GEORGE BUSH SENIOR'S ADMINistration decided that the end of the Cold War made it safe to reduce the defense budget and the size of our armed forces, many neoconservatives and defense hawks, some of whom were serving in that administration, argued against the move. They wanted the United States to maintain military dominance in order to prevent the emergence of a rival power to challenge American hegemony.
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Since the attacks of September 11, and the promulgation of the George W. Bush doctrine of unilateral military preemption a year later, many of these same individuals are ...
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