by Carl Conetta, May 2010. ➪ PDF
Prepared for “Economics and Security: Resourcing National Priorities,” a workshop sponsored by the William B. Ruger Chair of National Security Economics, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, May 2010. This article also is a chapter in Richmond M. Lloyd, ed, Economics and Security: Resourcing National Priorities (Newport RI: Naval War College, 2010).
- A related PDA publication of interest: An Undisciplined Defense: Understanding the $2 Trillion Surge in US Defense Spending, 18 January 2010, with 21 charts & tables.