Overseas Presence
An Old Mission and a Current Roles and Missions Issue: Why Not a Future Program?
ResearchPublished 1995
An Old Mission and a Current Roles and Missions Issue: Why Not a Future Program?
ResearchPublished 1995
One of the 25 issues that the Roles and Missions Commission intends to study as it examines the current Department of Defense structure centers on overseas presence: Can DoD more efficiently and effectively accomplish the purposes of military overseas presence? The purpose of this paper is to put overseas presence in a comprehensive strategic perspective and suggest that perhaps the time has arrived to make overseas presence a program that receives its fair share of analysis.
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