Global Network - Few details of planned $33 billion military budget increase

The Bush Administration plans to request a $33 billion budget authority
increase in the military budget from fiscal 2001 to fiscal 2002:

$310.6 billion	FY 2001 "050" military budget authority, including Pentagon + Department of Energy
$325.1 billion	FY 2002 "050" military budget authority, including Pentagon + Department of Energy as of March 2001
$343.5 billion	FY 2002 revised "050" total, including $18.4 billion reportedly added this month
$ 32.9 billion	Increase from FY 2001 to FY 2002

[Source:
Office of Management & Budget, "Budget of the U.S. Government," March 2001]

A few details of the increase provided by "senior Defense official" on Friday, June 22:

$329 billion - FY 2002 Pentagon only budget authority
$33 billion - increase from FY 2001 enacted for the Pentagon to FY 2002
More than 7% "real" increase after factoring in inflation

Breakdown of the increase:
$4.1 billion - quality of life, pay and housing
$2.0 billion - defense health program
$1.6 billion - readiness, operations and maintenance, base operation support
$1.3 billion - flying hours
$2.6 billion - other readiness
$2.6 billion - infrastructure
$3.6 billion - modernization of weapons, command and control, transformation
$600 million - missile defense (bringing the FY 2002 total to $7.5 billion)

Some aggregate totals from same official:
More than $8 billion - operations and maintenance
More than $6 billion - pay, housing and health
About $1 billion in savings

More details to come, either this Wednesday, or by the end of the week, or later, depending on which defense official is accurate.

How much is the $33 billion increase?

It's more than TWICE the defense budgets of all the states of concern - Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan and Syria - COMBINED ($12.8 billion) [1]

It's equal to the budgets of Commerce, Interior, Labor Departments and the Environmental Protection Agency- COMBINED! ($33.2 billion) [2]

It tops the defense budgets of France ($27 billion) and Germany ($23 billion) [3]

It's more than the budgets of every other federal agency except for the Dept. of Education and the Dept. of Health and Human Services: Dept. of Housing and Urban Development ($30.4 billion); Dept. of Energy ($19 billion); Dept. of Agriculture ($17.9); Dept. of Justice ($19.9 billion); Dept. of Transportation ($16.3 billion); Dept. of Treasury ($14.7 billion); and the Dept. of Veterans Affairs ($23.4 billion) [4]

It's more than the federal government spends on higher education ($13.8 billion) and law enforcement - COMBINED ($27.4 billion)! [5]

It's greater than the entire international affairs budget, including foreign military aid ($23.3 billion) [6]

It's greater than the Gross Domestic Products of over one-third of the individual nations in world (70 total) including: Bolivia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, Jordan, North Korea, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Senegal, Slovenia, Sudan Uganda, Uruguay and Zimbabwe [7]