A Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2008

By Miriam Pemberton, Lawrence J. Korb | April 26, 2007

If Congress funds the president’s $623 billion FY2008 military budget request, we will spend more on our forces next year than at any time since World War II. As they defend this budget before congressional committees, Defense Department officials are also arguing for a substantial increase above this amount in future years, even as they project that spending on the current wars will decline. A consistent theme of these presentations is that military spending currently represents a relatively low percentage of national Gross Domestic Product.

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This article was originally published in Foreign Policy in Focus.