Are the Soviets Really Outspending the U.S. on Defense?

ARTICLE IDENTIFIES SOURCES OF BIAS IN THE CIA'S ESTIMATES OF SOVIET DEFENSE EXPENDITURES, THE RESULT OF WHICH IS TO EXAGGERATE USSR SPENDING. THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE FLAWED ESTIMATES FOR THE NATIONAL SECURITY DEBATE ARE THEN DISCUSSED. ONE IMPORTANT SOURCE OF BIAS, IT IS ARGUED, IS THE CIA FAIL...

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Cost estimates
Defense expenditures
Defenses
DEFICIT SPENDING
Finance
Human resources
Index numbers
Military defense
Military spending
Military technology
PUBLIC POLICY
Ratios
Rethinking Intelligence
SECURITY
Soviet satellites
Soviet Union
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
United States
US POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, PROCESSES & BEHAVIOR
Weapons
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