Volume 28, Number 20 · December 17, 1981
The Trap of Rearmament
By James Fallows
The Baroque Arsenal
by Mary Kaldor
Hill and Wang, 294 pp., $14.95
Soviet Military Power
by the US Department of Defense
US Government Printing Office, 99 pp., $6.50
The East-West Strategic Balance
by T.B. Millar
Allen & Unwin, 199 pp., $12.50 (paper)
With the beginning of the government's fiscal year on October 1, the first full year of the Reagan administration's program to 'rearm America' began as well. The American military budget for the year just begun is some $214 billion. That is 3 percent less than the administration had originally projected, before the revisions made while the president was in Santa Barbara this summer, but it is 24 percent larger than the budget of only two years ago.[1]
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