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Article: Cold War Lives On in Clinton Military Spending Plan, Says CDI
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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WASHINGTON, June 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released
by the Center for Defense Information:
President Clinton says, "We must not cut defense further."
"Why not?" asks the Center for Defense Information (CDI) in its
latest report, "1995 Military Spending: The Real Story."
A private Washington-based defense research organization,
CDI is headed by retired senior military officers.
In a series of surprising and graphic comparisons, the CDI
report demonstrates that in 1999 the military will spend almost
exactly the same amount in real terms as it spent in 1980, a year
of extreme U.S.-Soviet confrontation. "Yet," notes retired rear
admiral Eugene Carroll Jr., director of the center, ...