Defense planning for the Post-Cold War Era. Giving Meaning to Flexibility,Adaptiveness, and Robustness of Capability

摘要

The objectives of this study are (a) to describe a new vision of operationallyoriented defense planning, (b) to introduce related concepts for planning under certainty, and (c) to recommend a strategy for implementing and refining the ideas over time. The study seeks to communicate and extend significantly ideas about operations planning the have recently been embraced by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and translated into requirements for the military commands. The study also proposes new analytic methods and recommends a rather fundamental restructuring of defense planning generally (i.e., of strategic and programmatic planning, as well as operations planning).