Download or read book Paying for Military Readiness and Upkeep written by Amy Belasco and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how spending on military operation and maintenance grew in the 1980s and fell in the 1990s. The study highlights changes that could be made to achieve lower levels of spending by 2002. Topics addressed include: the need to reduce operation and maintenance spending levels in the future, why defensewide spending on operation and maintenance has grown, readiness and operation and maintenance spending by the services, and strategies for reducing spending. Charts and tables.