Improving Force Development Within the U.S. Department of Defense: Diagnosis and Potential Prescriptions

Abstract

The first of these two quotations is taken from General Dempsey's assessment of the strategy and defense program outlined in the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) Quadrennial Defense Review of 2014. It is, obviously, not an optimistic take on the future military balance; regrettably, it has proven prophetic. Dempsey made his assessment before Russia intervened forcibly in eastern Ukraine, before the so-called Islamic State or ISIS overran and seized control of large parts of Syria and Iraq, and before it was decided that U.S. forces were going to remain in Afghanistan in significant numbers. All of those developments have placed additional demands on U.S. forces, yet the resources provided to them have not substantially increased.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1084822

Entities

People

  • David Ochmanek

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Intellectual Property
  • Military Capabilities
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • North Korea
  • Security
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.