Rethinking the QDR

摘要

Ever since President Dwight D. Eisenhower created Project Solarium in 1953, with its three competing teams of top military and diplomatic officials arguing different approaches for winning the Cold War, officials have turned to the Red Team approach in developing national strategy. The latest "Red Team" to make waves in Washington is the Quadrennial Defense Review independent panel, tasked by Congress to test the assumptions and findings of last year's QDR.