Defense Strategy: Revised Analytic Approach Needed to Support Force Structure Decision-Making

Abstract

The Department of Defense's (DOD) analytic approach has not provided senior leaders with the support they need to evaluate and determine the force structure necessary to implement the National Defense Strategy. DOD's analytic approach - Support for Strategic Analysis (SSA) - is used by the services to evaluate their force structure needs and develop their budgets.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1166928

Entities

People

  • Alex Winograd
  • Amie Lesser
  • Carly Gerbig
  • Carol Dawn Petersen
  • John H. Pendleton
  • Mae Jones
  • Martin de Alteriis
  • Nicolaas Cornelisse
  • Patricia Lentini
  • Shahzad Nikoo

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Congress
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Force Structure
  • Governments
  • Military Science
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Strategic Analysis
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design