{"id":490,"date":"2010-05-30T07:23:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T11:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comw.org\/pda\/?p=490"},"modified":"2023-04-25T08:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T12:47:56","slug":"the-dynamics-of-defense-budget-growth-1998-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/the-dynamics-of-defense-budget-growth-1998-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dynamics of Defense Budget Growth, 1998-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22676 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/defense-spending-250x141.jpg\" alt=\"graph\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/defense-spending-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/defense-spending-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/defense-spending-106x60.jpg 106w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/defense-spending-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/defense-spending-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/defense-spending.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"varPubAuthor\">by Carl Conetta<\/span>, May 2010.  \u27aa<a href=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/fulltext\/Conetta%20paper%201%20June.pdf\"> PDF<\/a><br style=\"height:1.5em\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"varPubSource\">Prepared for \u201cEconomics and Security: Resourcing National Priorities,\u201d a workshop sponsored by the William B. Ruger Chair of National Security Economics, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island,<\/span> <span class=\"varPubDate\">May 2010.<\/span> <span>This article also is a chapter in Richmond M. Lloyd, ed, <em>Economics and Security: Resourcing National Priorities<\/em> (Newport RI: Naval War College, 2010).<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">A related PDA publication of interest: <a href=\"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/an-undisciplined-defense-understanding-the-2-trillion-surge-in-us-defense-spending\/\">An Undisciplined Defense: Understanding the $2 Trillion Surge in US Defense Spending<\/a>, 18 January 2010, with 21 charts &amp; tables.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Carl Conetta, May 2010. \u27aa PDF Prepared for \u201cEconomics and Security: Resourcing National Priorities,\u201d a workshop sponsored by the William B. 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