Mission-Pull and Long-Range Planning

Abstract

With the demise of a monolithic threat, planners might do well to discard their scenario-based tools that are geared to identifying specific military requirements. What they need is a flexible method of long-range defense planning against generic threats. To be farsighted planners should focus on missions likely to arise 18 to 20 years from now. Given that acquisition decisions made today will result in fielding weapon systems which can endure for forty years and that the mindsets of the leaders of 2010 have already been shaped, it is time to apply the mission-pull approach developed by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Partially used by the Joint Requirements Oversight Council and the Commission on the Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces, this new approach offers an analytic tool that is especially suited to the defense budgeting process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA528804

Entities

People

  • Clark A. Murdock

Organizations

  • National Defense University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Cold War
  • Combat Areas
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Defense Planning
  • Homeland Defense
  • Land Warfare
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Security
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

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