Officials: QDR Outlines Two-War Capacity; To Spawn Strategic Planning 'Road Maps'

Published: Jan 26, 2006
Source: www.aviationweek.com



he Defense Department's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) will advocate a two-war combat capacity for the U.S. military that depends on several variables such as duration of conflict and partnering with allied countries, and it will spawn eight "road maps" afterward to complete strategic planning not finished in the QDR but outlined by senior Pentagon officials, according to an Army advisor to the QDR effort.

The eight additional plans will revolve around strategic communications for the department itself; building up allied countries' abilities; sensor-based management of ISR enterprise to make sure focus is on sensor capability and not platforms; new authorities needed from Congress; irregular warfare, and namely, special operations capabilities; joint command and control operations; locating, targeting and tracking enemies; and DOD's internal governance reforms.

Army Col. Pat Kelly of the QDR Integration Team in the Office of the Secretary of Defense told the Precision Strike Association's winter roundtable on Jan. 25 in Arlington, Va., that the road maps will be fleshed out over the next six to nine months after the QDR. The required defense review will be released Feb. 6. The work, which was not finished by the QDR deadline, expands on concepts delineated by the DOD's Senior Leadership Review Group, he said.continue..