Bottom-Up Review. Analysis of Key DoD Assumptions.

Abstract

In its bottom-up review of the nation's defense needs, the Department of Defense (DOD), among other things, judged that it is prudent to maintain the capability to fight and win two nearly simultaneous major regional conflicts, and determined the forces, capability improvements, and funding necessary to do so. DOD used the results of the bottom-up review to develop its fiscal year 1995 budget and Future Years Defense Program. Because the bottom-up review is the basis for DOD'S planning, programming, and budgeting for the foreseeable future, GAO examined DOD's assumptions about key aspects of the two-conflict strategy to determine whether they reasonably support DOD's conclusion that the projected force, with capability improvements, can execute the strategy. GAO did not review the rationale for DOD's decision to select the two-conflict strategy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA296549

Entities

People

  • Barbara Gannon
  • Richard Payne
  • Sharon Pickup
  • Steven Sternlieb
  • William Wood

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
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  • Combat Forces
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  • Combat Readiness
  • Congress
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  • Deployment
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  • Flight Crews
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Lessons Learned
  • Logistics
  • Military Planning
  • Munitions
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.