North America

摘要

An increasingly complex international security situation meant there was little space for radically new strategy initiatives in 2015. Indeed, the 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance and 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) were still relatively recent, and as the Obama administration winds down, its main defence priorities are unlikely to change. It will be content to avoid a budgetary showdown with Congress and to find some way to sustain its preferred military plan, ideally with enough funds to avoid the need for a significant change of direction.