Robert Gates in Hard Choices, by Hillary Clinton

On Homeland Security: We spend less on diplomacy than on military marching bands

[Defense Secretary Bob Gates] believed it was time for balance among what I was calling the 3Ds of defense, diplomacy, and development. The easiest place to see the imbalance was in the budget. For every dollar spent by the federal government, just one penny went to diplomacy and development. Bob said the foreign affairs budget was "disproportionately small relative to what we spend on the military." There were as many Americans serving in military marching bands as in the diplomatic corps. We became allies, tag-teaming Congress for a smarter national security budget. Source: Hard Choices, by Hillary Clinton, p. 24 Jun 10, 2014

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