FLOURNOY: QDR MUST PREPARE FOR END OF U.S. LEAD IN 'GLOBAL COMMONS'

摘要

The Quadrennial Defense Review must jettison a bedrock assumption of every post-Cold War national security strategy - that the U.S. military will enjoy uncontested access to global commons of sea, air, space and cyberspace -a move with "profound consequences" for defense planning, the Pentagon's No. 3 official argues in a new essay.rnMichele Flournoy, the under secretary of defense for policy and a key official guiding the QDR, and Shawn Brimley, a special assistant to Flournoy, write in the July issue of the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings magazine about one of the high-stakes issues being examined in the review - how to better prepare for high-end, asymmetric threats.