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Serving America's Veterans: A Reference Handbook comes from an impeccable source. Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations, and Logistics Lawrence J. Korb. Korb and his team of experts survey, analyze, and evaluate the infrastructural conditions, administrative and health care service challenges, policies, and politics affecting veterans affairs in the United States. They overview the historical context of contemporary veterans affairs and project the capabilities of the Veterans Administration to cope with the needs of active, reserve, and retired vet

Since the !ate 1960's, Congress has played a more vigorous role in examining the defense budget. It is not unusual for the authorization and appropriation committee hearings on the major programs in the defense budget to last more than 6 months. With increasing frequency '1floor fights" over particular items have extended the legislative phase of the defense budgeting cycle midway into the fiscal year. It would appear that the days when Con­gress rubberstamps a $70 billion defense budget in less than an hour are a thing of the past.

Budgetary constraints, the level of Federal spending, and the rate of inflation are familiar political topics to all informed Americans, but their impact on the defense budget over the next 8 years must be a cause for the military professional's particular concern.

The most important thing that military and civilian policy makers bring to the Defense policy arena is their experiences. It is invaluable! [t is something one cannot get out of a textbook and it is something one cannot buy or manufacture. At the same time, these leaders and managers must rise above that experience and look objectively at the major issues confronting their services, their agencies and their country.

The quality and character of policy and the preservation of certain values in the American political system largely depend upon the relationships that exist between and within the branches of Government.