The QDR Process.

Abstract

These are hard times for those entrusted with crafting our national security strategy. The international environment has undergone the kind of profound transformation which ordinarily takes decades if not generations to unfold. Strategists have had to adjust to a baffling number of challenges. In Iraq, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Rwanda, and the Straits of Taiwan events did not fit neatly into familiar categories of demands on military power. Since 1989 circumstances that we thought could be ignored instead demanded attention, thus compelling the Nation to reassess its foreign and defense policies. Those charged with formulating policy have had to adjust quickly: from the Base Force and the Bottom-Up Review to the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). They still have a long way to go and so has the United States as a whole.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA354183

Entities

People

  • Alvin H. Bernstein
  • Jim Couter

Organizations

  • Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Aircraft Industry
  • Aircrafts
  • Cold War
  • Defense Systems
  • Force Structure
  • Information Systems
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Tilt Rotor Aircraft
  • United States
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies