The needle tracking the overall balance of spending on offense (military forces), defense (homeland security), and prevention (non-military foreign engagement) stayed stubbornly in place. In the FY 2010 request, like the one before it, 87 percent of the nation’s security resources were allocated to the tools of military force. This is true even excluding the appropriations for wars the country is currently fighting.

CACNP participates each year in the task force, which is co-chaired by Miriam Pemberton and Larry Korb. Kingston and I both did a little bean counting.

The report has too much valuable material to cover in a single blog post, so I’ll just share my favorite chart (which I believe is new to this year’s version):

Security Matters, Acquisition, Defense Spending (all tags)

Center Analysis

Analysis of FY 2011 Budget Request
For Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, which begins on October 1, 2010, the Obama Administration has requested a base budget of $548.9 billion for the Department of Defense (DoD). This is $18 billion, or 3.4 percent, above the appropriated Fiscal Year 2010 base budge...

The Reliability and Safety of U.S. Nuclear Weapons
On January 28, 2010 at a Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation briefing for Senate staffers that was moderated by Center Chairman Lt. General Robert Gard (USA, Ret.), Dr. Richard Garwin discussed the reliability of U.S. nuclear weapons and options...

Biological Threats: A Matter of Balance
In the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the Center's Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons Control argues that the Graham-Talent WMD Commission exaggerates the bioterrorist threat and proposes solutions that won't produce the comprehen...

Turning the Doomsday Clock
Twenty-first century threats require innovative and global solutions. Reducing the numbers of nuclear weapons in the world and preventing their further spread will require concerted effort by many nations and sustained leadership from the United States, w...

Biological Threats: A Matter of Balance
In response to a report card released on January 26 by the Graham-Talent Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism, the Scientists Working Group on Biological and Chemical Weapons at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation ...