The issue for Congress is whether to conduct a broad reassessment of U.S. defense analogous to. the 1993 Bottom-Up Review (BUR), and more generally, how U.S. defense funding levels, strategy, plans, and programs should respond to changes in the international security. environment.
accretion. n. 1) in real estate, the increase of the actual land on a stream, lake or sea by the action of water which deposits soil upon the shoreline. Accretion is Mother Nature's little gift to a landowner.
(astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases. accretion disk. A disk of gas that accumulates around a center of gravitational attraction, such as a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole.