Shortly after Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld took office, he initiated a series of 11 panels to examine everything from US grand strategy to the personnel system. While no official results have been announced, CSBA has proposed its own version of what military transformation could look like.

Rumsfeld Strategy Review

CSBA’s assessment of the Rumsfeld Strategy Review is published in these reports.

A Strategy for a Long Peace authors Andrew Krepinevich, Michael Vickers and Steven Kosiak propose a new defense strategy in response to a changing security environment, and to ensure the United States maintains the military superiority needed to underwrite a long peace. Revolutionary military changes, major geo-political shifts, and a current strategy that is ill-suited to confront the challenges posed by these developments motivated the authors to offer a strategy whose centerpiece is the transformation of the American military.

The Bush Administration's Call for Defense Transformation: A Congressional Guide is an attempt to provide a series of first-order metrics by which to evaluate whether the forthcoming defense strategy represents an improvement over the current defense posture, as laid down by the Clinton Administration’s 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review.