Department of Defense
Defense Management Challenges in the Post-Bush Era
Book Chapter Economics Papers 3, , Naval War College
January 2008
Author: Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project (on leave), Harvard & Stanford Universities
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Preventive Defense Project
In recent years, the long-established processes in DoD to manage risk and set budgets have been undermined. The Defense budget has increased by more than half since 9/11 in inflation-adjusted dollars, while huge supplementals have been added for Iraq. The result has been good in one way—adequate funding for Defense—but in other ways has been corrosive of the processes and discipline that ensure that strategy and budgets align.
The task of Defense leaders in the post-Bush era will be to explain the portfolio strategy and to win the support of Congress and the American people for the needed investments. In this book chapter, Dr. Carter describes the principles that should guide Defense investments in the coming years for each of the five mission areas in the portfolio.
Full text of the chapter is available in the attachment below.
- Carter Chapter.pdf (61K PDF)
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http://www.nwc.navy.mil/academics/courses/nsdm/rugerpapers.aspx
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