CALLS FOR SPECIFICITY SPURRED REVIEW OF FORCE-PLANNING CONSTRUCT

摘要

Ongoing deliberations about a new force-sizing construct for the U.S. military are fueled, at least in part, by complaints from military planners that the current approach is too vague, according to defense officials.rnThe 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review introduced the idea of modeling the size and composition of U.S. forces along three major functional themes: homeland defense, counterterrorism and irregular warfare, and conventional warfare. Combined with a series of variables - like the projected duration of conflicts, their intensity or the environment in which they take place ~ defense leaders aimed to create a very high-level formula for translating the complexities of a post-September 11 world into concrete force-sizing guidance.