The wastrels of defense : how Congress sabotages U.S. security

The wastrels of defense : how Congress sabotages U.S. security / Winslow T. Wheeler.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wheeler, Winslow T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2004.
Subjects:
United States. > Congress > Appropriations and expenditures.
United States. > Dept. of Defense > Appropriations and expenditures.
Waste in government spending > United States.
Patronage, Political > United States.
United States > Defenses > Economic aspects.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • The nature of the problem
  • What is the problem?
  • Ego is at the heart of the trouble
  • Pork : it's worse than you've been told
  • War is not hell : it's an opportunity
  • Mr. Smith is dead
  • Confessions of a pork processor
  • Pork lows and highs
  • How the system operates, or doesn't
  • Oversight : the triumph of appearances over reality
  • Watchdogs, lapdogs, and distorted lenses
  • Beyond nonfeasance : the utility of distortion
  • The engine of congressional good and evil : the staff
  • Hill life and death
  • The right and wrong way to go to war
  • Politicians at their best
  • Congress on its knees
  • The week of shame
  • Conclusion.

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