The US military policy of being able to fight two major theater wars in close succession isn't necessarily dead, but it's likely to be redefined as part of the Quadrennial Defense Review now under way, according to a senior Pentagon official.rnNo matter what its final shape, though, the emerging US concept of national defense will be constrained by flat defense budgets during the next five-year cycle.rnThis was the view of David A. Ochmanek, deputy assistant secretary of defense for force planning. Ochmanek, meeting with defense reporters in late July, said that the traditional "two-war" planning construct-which, with some variation, has served as the basic force-sizing tool since the early 1990s-is "not dead," but is the subject of great debate in the QDR.
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