The new House Republican budget doesn’t strike a good balance between spending for defense, development, and diplomacy, write Lawrence J. Korb and Max Hoffman.
Issue Brief
Lawrence J. Korb, Alex Rothman, and Max Hoffman grade the Pentagon's latest budget request.
Lawrence J. Korb, Max Hoffman, and Alex Rothman take a long view on Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s budget reductions and find that we’ll need to do more in the coming years to bring military spending under control.
Max Hoffman is a Research Associate on the National Security & International Policy team at American Progress, focusing on the U.S. defense budget and the intersection of climate change, human migration, and security concerns. Max graduated with his M.A. in history from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, winning the Compton Prize in American History [...]