Speaking of national security, Inside Defense has gotten their hands on a leaked copy of the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, which is the road map by which the U.S. guides its defense posture and spending. Laura Rozen reprints some of the themes of the Review:
The Defense Department is abandoning an explicit requirement to be able to simultaneously fight two major conventional wars -- a keystone of defense planning since the fall of the Soviet Union -- in order to prepare the services for a wider and more complex array of security challenges, according to Pentagon officials.....This paradigm shift does not mean the Defense Department is shedding capabilities needed for such large-scale engagements. Rather, it codifies that DOD is broadening its operational plans -- and the range of investments necessary to execute them -- to deal with a more diverse portfolio of contingencies.
