SECURITY TRANSFORMATION: Report of the Belfer Center Conference on Military Transformation

摘要

On November 22 and 23, 2002, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs brought together present and former defense officials and military commanders to assess the Department of Defense's (DoD) progress in achieving a 'transformation' of U.S. military capabilities. The conference was held at the Belfer Center at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and it was cosponsored with the U.S. Army War College and the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Security Series. The fundamental idea of transformation is that the United States must change its defense enterprise dramatically in order to meet the range of security challenges of the next several decades. These challenges will be global and substantially different from those of the recent past. Consequently, this transformation should affect every aspect of DoD activities, from determining new, joint strategy, doctrine, and operational concepts, to exploiting new technology in existing and new military systems, especially information technology, to reconfiguring the force structure, leveraging human skills, realigning intelligence, and adopting new, more efficient management practices.