QDR

Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., issued a statement Saturday emphasizing that the QDR is a planning tool that does not have the force of law.

Matthew Yglesias » Nobody Wants to Lose an Aircraft Carrier for Their State 2010

Matthew Yglesias: The idea of the QDR is that it both serves as a statement of intent, indicating what high-level DOD policymakers tend to pursue in terms of budget objectives and resource-allocation, and also that it functions as high-level guidance for career personnel as to what their bosses want everyone to do.

Matthew Yglesias » Your 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review 2010

The idea of the QDR is that it both serves as a statement of intent, indicating what high-level DOD policymakers tend to pursue in terms of budget objectives and resource-allocation, and also that it functions as high-level guidance for career personnel as to what their bosses want everyone to do.

Matthew Yglesias » Your 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review 2010

Although hastily rewritten to emphasize a commitment to "homeland defense" over missile defense, the most recent QDR is short on specifics and indefinitely postpones crucial decisions, notably on items such as personnel and procurement.

Fourth-generation Warfare 2001

Although hastily rewritten to emphasize a commitment to "homeland defense" over missile defense, the most recent QDR is short on specifics and indefinitely postpones crucial decisions, notably on items such as personnel and procurement.

Fourth-generation Warfare 2001

If we want a drastically cheaper military, then we need to stop pretending that we can do everything we want for cheaper (and the government doesn’t seemed to have learned that yet – look at how ambitious their goals are in QDR), and make some serious and difficult decisions on what we want US military strategy to be.

Matthew Yglesias » Scalpels, Hatchets, and the Defense Budget 2010

One way to do this is to praise part of the strategy (called the QDR -- quadrennial defense review) while criticizing its overall direction.

Lorelei Kelly: National Security: Rove's Achille's Heel 2008

The QDR is a 128-page Defense Department report mandated by Congress to be compiled every four years to put forward a 20-year projection of U.S. military planning.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

The QDR is a 128-page Defense Department report mandated by congress to be compiled every four years to put forward a 20-year projection of US military planning.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Jack A Smith 2010

The QDR is a 128-page Defense Department report mandated by congress to be compiled every four years to put forward a 20-year projection of US military planning.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010