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President Carter’s request for a modest hike in this year’s budget for the Pentagon has touched off the usual round of protests about the military-industrial complex and its voracious appetite for funds.

That it isn’t so—and hasn’t been in recent memory—is the theme of James L. Clayton’s Does Defense Beggar Welfare? (National Strategy Information Center, 111 E. 58th St., New York, N.Y. 10022; $3.95). Mr. Clayton, dean of the graduate school and a professor of economic history at the University of Utah, demonstrates that national spending for defense, despite the upward pressure exerted by Vietnam, has fallen consistently since the Korean War.

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President Carter’s request for a modest hike in this year’s budget for the Pentagon has touched off the usual round of protests about the military-industrial complex and its voracious appetite for funds.

That it isn’t so—and hasn’t been in recent memory—is the theme of James L. Clayton’s Does Defense Beggar Welfare? (National Strategy Information Center, 111 E. 58th St., New York, N.Y. 10022; $3.95). Mr. Clayton, dean of the graduate school and a professor of economic history at the University of Utah, demonstrates that national spending for defense, despite the upward pressure exerted by Vietnam, has fallen consistently since the Korean War.