"The China Syndrome"

From "The China Syndrome" by Michael Klare:

On February 4, President Bush announced a baseline   military budget of $515.4 billion for the next fiscal year, not including funds   for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the largest one-year Pentagon   request in real, uninflated dollars since World War II. This Fiscal Year (FY)   2009 figure represents a 7.5% increase over the 2008 appropriation of $479.5   billion and is expected to be the first of many rising requests supposedly needed   to replace equipment lost and damaged in Iraq and to gear up for the security   threats to come. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen explained   last October, "we're just going to have to devote more resources to national   security in the world we're living in right now."

At first glance, all these additional funds will be used to sustain the Global   War on Terror (GWOT, in Pentagon shorthand) and replace equipment destroyed   or rendered inoperable in the wars now under way. "The Fiscal Year 2009   Defense budget request sustains the President's commitment to growing U.S. ground   forces that are needed to prevail in the current conflicts in Iran and Afghanistan,"   a Pentagon   press release notes. Additional funds are allocated for "Operations,   Readiness, and Support"  –  troop training, replacement parts and equipment,   combat supplies, and so on.

But a close examination of the FY 2009 request indicates that the principal   sources of future budget growth are not the GWOT or other such low-intensity   contingencies but rather preparation for all-out combat with a future superpower.   Probe a little deeper into Pentagon thinking, and only one potential   superpower emerges to justify all this vast spending: The People's Republic   of China.... (more)

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