The Impact of Strategic Guidance on Army Budget Submissions

Abstract

The President, Secretary of Defense and the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff routinely publish strategic guidance in the form of the National Security Strategy, National Military Strategy, National Defense Strategy and the Quadrennial Defense Review. This paper analyzes the correlation between the guidance contained in these documents on the Army's annual budget submissions. In this analysis Army management decision packages (MDEPs) are grouped according to capability to highlight the linkage between guidance and budget submissions. Lastly, the paper discusses how the Army could better utilize the Planning Programming Budgeting Process to more effectively implement change.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA520016

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey C. Powell

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Business Administration
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Military History
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Students
  • Training Management
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

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