QDR SHAKES UP PLANNING PROCESS FOR FUTURE MILITARY MISSIONS

摘要

The ongoing Quadrennial Defense Review will draw heavily on classified, country-specific scenarios for military missions, departing from a previous "infatuation" with capabilities-based planning, according to a senior defense official.rnDavid Ochmanek, who earlier this year became deputy assistant secretary of defense for force development and the head of the QDR analysis and integration cell, has been charged with reconstituting a planning capability to close the gap between the National Defense Strategy and how the department allocates its resources.