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.
The gradual and imperceptible accumulation of land by natural causes, as out of the sea or a river. This may be the result from a deposit of alluvion upon the shore, or by a recession of the water from the shore. Accretion is the act, while alluvion is the deposit itself.