Paying for War
Funding U.S. Military Operations Since 2001
The challenge of budgeting for military operations was not a new one that the U.S. faced in the early 2000s. Since World War II, the U.S. has conducted major multiyear military operations in Korea and Vietnam. Yet the methods used to budget for operations since 2001 were very different than during these previous operations. In prior operations, the wartime budgets were largely merged or subsumed within the annual defense budgets within two or three years. However, an alternate wartime budget, either in the form of supplemental appropriations or a separate title in the annual appropriations bill, has been used throughout recent operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This dissertation documents the findings and recommendations from an analysis of the outcomes from using separate wartime budgets during prolonged operations. The outcomes explored within the dissertation range from the changes in budgetary influence that the executive and legislative branches have in certain situations to identifying budgetary challenges that will likely emerge as operations conclude.
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- Copyright: RAND Corporation
- Availability: Web-Only
- Pages: 211
- Document Number: RGSD-283
- Year: 2011
- Series: Dissertations
Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Predicting Outcomes of Wartime Supplemental Appropriations
Chapter Three
Analysis of Wartime Supplemental Requests and Appropriations
Chapter Four
How Supplemental Appropriations Impacted Base Personnel Policy
Chapter Five
Wartime Budgets Influence Operation and Maintenance Spending
Chapter Six
Wartime Acquisition Impacts Force Structures and Operating Costs
Chapter Seven
Army MRAP Retention
Chapter Eight
Buying Military Intervention in the Future
Appendix A
Wartime Requests and Appropriations
Appendix B
Interviews
Appendix C
Comparing Current and Future TWVs to MRAPs
Appendix D
Allocating MRAPs
Appendix E
Modeling the Costs of MRAP Allocation
This document was submitted as a dissertation in August 2011 in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the doctoral degree in public policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. The faculty committee that supervised and approved the dissertation consisted of Ellen Pint (Chair), Jim Quinlivan, and Cindy Williams.
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