However, in recent years the Department of Defense (DoD) has come to dominate this public expenditure. This trend provokes a question as to how R&D spending for military purposes has influenced the direction of software technology development and the structure of the commercial software industry. ...
With US debt skyrocketing to $13.5 trillion, the rallying cry from Washington is to cut spending. But many politicians refuse to address defense spending. Defense spending accounts for 58 percent of the discretionary pie, more than a trillion dollars a year all-in, or almost half of what the...
This naturally raises the question: what is behind the sudden interest in boosting US defense spending, after a decade and a half of continuous war? The official reason for the boost, and one that has some merit, is the sorry state of the US military. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ...
Meanwhile, interest on the debt is approaching $1 trillion a year – on par with proposed Defense spending. Tim SmartMay 23, 2025 DC Jewish Leader Reacts to Shooting ‘Just send us a note and tell us you're thinking of us.’ Ron Halber says rising antisemitism has left his community ...
defense policy bill that authorizes a record $886 billion in annual military spending and policies such as aid for Ukraine and push-back against China in the Indo-Pacific. The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, passed Congress last week. The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate approved...
While the media is constantly pointing torunaway healthcare spending, defense spending has grown at10% per year in the past decade, faster than any part of the budget. The Korean and Vietnam Wars were fought on2/3 the current defense budget, and those were much larger conflicts than Iraq...
With President Trump’s return to the Oval Office, there is more uncertainty than usual about the future of American defense spending. In December 2024, President Biden passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (NDAA FY2025), which authorizes $921.0 billion in funding for...
While the U.S. government pretends to make an effort to limit the budget, the military budget is projected to increase in alignment with Biden's budget proposal. In contrast, non-defense discretionary spending is expected to remain "roughly flat" at current year levels in 2024 as per the Fi...
The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to allow for higher defense spending.
000 lives. And yet it keeps supplying military aid to keep the conflict in Eurasia alive so US arms manufacturers can make more and more profits. The US defense spending will not do anyone any good. True, it may help weaken Russia but that would be at the cost of the Ukrainian people'...