Pentagon Weighing Formal Proposal to Link Annual Spending to Size of U.S. Economy

By Jason Sherman / February 27, 2008 at 5:00 AM
The Pentagon is actively considering whether to adopt as a formal position the recent call by some military leaders, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to peg annual military spending to a fixed portion of the total size of the U.S. economy. "This is still a source of discussion in the Department of Defense," Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told the House Budget Committee today. "We are definitely having discussions," England said. Whether DOD will advance that...

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