This War Really Matters
Inside the Fight for Defense Dollars
Drawing on nearly 40 years of news writing focused on military issues, George C. Wilson takes the reader through a fascinating, but little understood, process: how the Pentagon and Congress spend $500,000 a minute on guns and soldiers. Interweaving personal stories and insights from the major players throughout a fast-paced narrative, Wilson provides an inside look at how the 105th Congress and the Pentagon battled for a 250 billion dollar defense budget.Wilson demystifies the &BAD:quot;realpolitik&BAD:quot; among the individual armed forces and highly partisan members of Congress, as well as civilian and military leaders, thus giving…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-56802-460-8
- EAN: 9781568024608
- Produktnummer: 22443288
- Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 340 g
- Gewicht: 340
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
George C. Wilson is the former chief defense correspondent for the Washington Post and is a columnist for Army Times, Navy Times, and Air Force Times. He is the author of the bestseller Supercarrier and numerous other books, including Flying the Edge: The Making of the Navy Test Pilots and Mud Soldiers: Life Inside the New American Army.
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