CSBA Staff Available To Comment On The Release Of The Quadrennial Defense Review


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CSBA Staff Available To Comment On The Release Of The Quadrennial Defense Review

Natalia Davidson	Published 05/05/1997 Press Release

Contact: Natalia Davidson		PHONE:	(202) 331-7990
May 5, 1997		FAX:	(202) 331-8019

On May 19th, the Department of Defense (DoD) is scheduled to release its long-awaited Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). If it is to succeed, DoD’s QDR will have to meet the challenge of transforming the armed forces into a very different kind of military from the one we have today, while sustaining the military’s ability to protect U.S. national interests through the transition. The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) is uniquely positioned to assess whether the QDR has fulfilled this mandate. In the hours after its May 19 release, CSBA will be providing commentary for media on the following:

Does the QDR provide a strategic roadmap for the transition to a new defense posture? Does the QDR balance near and long-term risks? Does it provide an adequate hedge against strategic uncertainty?

Is the strategy outlined in the QDR in line with the resources likely to be made available for defense?

Given the potential for fundamental change in the character of warfare and in the international distribution of power in the decades ahead, has the QDR asked the right questions about our future military strategy?

Has the QDR produced a military strategy that is likely to attain the ends of American grand strategy?

Has the QDR been informed by a compelling and credible vision of future conflict?

CSBA’s Executive Director, Andrew Krepinevich, is currently serving as a member of the National Defense Panel – a panel established by Congress to review the QDR and to suggest alternative force structures. CSBA Director of Strategic Studies, Michael Vickers, who is also currently serving as Acting Director of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, is an expert on the emerging revolution in military affairs and its prospective influence on American strategy. He has also recently been named to chair a major defense policy study on transformation strategy and the transition to a new force posture. CSBA’s Director of Budget Studies Steven Kosiak provides in-depth analysis of the defense budget and its relationship to strategy.

CSBA is an independent, non profit public policy research institute funded by foundation, corporate, government, and individual grants and contributions.

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