Strategic Issues and Options for the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)

Paul K. Davis, Richard L. Kugler, Richard Hillestad

ResearchPublished 1997

This briefing develops and examines a wide range of strategic options for the defense program and posture. It evaluates them in a new planning framework that considers options for their contributions to contingency capability, environment shaping, and strategic adaptiveness. The options developed range from evolutionary development of the current forces to options involving substantial reengineering to exploit U.S. technological strengths and embrace various features of the revolution in military affairs (RMA). Implications are drawn about principles for force sizing, preparing for next-century operations, addressing "Achilles' heels" in U.S. defense capabilities, working with allies, and shaping the security environment.

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  • Year: 1997
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Davis, Paul K., Richard L. Kugler, and Richard Hillestad, Strategic Issues and Options for the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), RAND Corporation, DB-201-OSD, 1997. As of September 11, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB201.html
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Davis, Paul K., Richard L. Kugler, and Richard Hillestad, Strategic Issues and Options for the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1997. https://www.rand.org/pubs/documented_briefings/DB201.html. Also available in print form.
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