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Reviewing Defense: The Quadrennial Defense Review, the National Defense Panel, and the Strategy Budget Debate
November 1997
 
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Introduction

Foreward

Project on Defense Alternatives, "From the QDR to the NDP-A Summary of QDR Policy Issues Since May 1997 and the Likely Content of the NDP Report," 31 October 1997

Strategic Background

Russell E. Travers, "A New Millennium and a Strategic Breathing Space," The Washington Quarterly, Spring 1997

Institute for National Strategic Studies, "Threat Assessment," in 1997 Strategic Assessment: Flashpoints and Force Structure, National Defense University, 1997

General Patrick M. Hughes, "Global Threats and Challenges to the United States and Its Interests Abroad," Statement for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, February 5, 1997, and Statement for the Senate Armed Services Committee on Intelligence, February 6, 1997

Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, "Post-Cold War US Military Expenditure in the Context of World Spending Trends" (Summary and Tables), Project on Defense Alternatives Briefing Memo 10, January 1997

Framework for Defense Planning in the New Era

Paul Davis, David Gompert, and Richard Kugler, "Adaptiveness in National Defense: The Basis of a New Framework," RAND Issue Paper, August 1996

Senator Charles S. Robb, "Challenging the Assumptions of US Military Strategy," The Washington Quarterly, Spring 1997

Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Dynamic Changes As we Move Towards 2010," Joint Vision 2010

Carl Conetta and Charles Knight, "US Defense Posture in Global Context: A Framework for Evaluating the Quadrennial Defense Review," Project on Defense Alternatives, May 1997,

The Quadrennial Defense Review

Government Accounting Office, "Quadrennial Defense Review Initiatives," from "Future Years Defense Program: DOD's Plan Has Substantial Risk in Execution" GAO/NSIAD-98-26, October 1997

Lawrence J. Korb, "The Pentagon's War on Thrift," The New York Times, 22 May 1997

Francis Greenlief, "Structuring the Total Force: Push More Power Into Guard, Fund Modernization," Defense News, 1997

James Der Derian, "The QDR, the Theater of War, and Building a Better Rat-Trap," June 1997

Government Accounting Office, "Military Bases: Lessons Learned From Prior Base Closure Rounds" (excerpts), GAO/NSIAD-97-151, 25 July 1997

Government Accounting Office, "Future Years Defense Program: DOD's Plan Has Substantial Risk in Execution" (excerpts), GAO/NSIAD-98-26, October 1997

Michael O'Hanlon, "The Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review," Brookings Institution Policy Brief No. 15, April 1997

The National Defense Panel

Philip A. Odeen, "Testimony Before the National Security Committee," U.S. House of Representatives, 16 April 1997

National Defense Panel, "Assessment of the May 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review," May 1997

National Defense Panel, "National Security in the 21st Century: The Challenge of Transformation," Joint Force Quarterly, Summer 1997


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