On QDRs

摘要

Every four years the Air Force and sister services run a gantlet of major Pentagon processes that dissect missions and reprioritize and amputate programs: the Quadrennial Defense Review, best known as the QDR. Although Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has pushed to reduce the number of Pentagon studies, the QDR isn't one of them. The next QDR in 2013 or 2014 will mark two decades for the banner strat- i egy exercise.