Reforming Pentagon Strategic Decisionmaking

Authors

Christopher J. Lamb, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
Irving Lachow, National Defense University

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Description

The recent 2006 Department of Defense Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) Report to Congress gives a surprising prominence to decisionmaking reform. Prior to the 2006 QDR Report, Pentagon leaders thought reforms they made between 2001 and 2005 were sufficient to produce major shifts in military capabilities that would move the Department of Defense (DOD) into the 21st century.¹ Yet by the time Pentagon leaders finished the report, they believed strategic decisionmaking reforms were one of only two fundamental imperatives for DOD to emerge from the QDR (the other being the need to continue efforts to reorient military capabilities toward new threats).²

Document Type

Policy Brief

Publication Date

7-2006

Publication

Strategic Forum

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Recommended Citation

Lamb, Christopher J. and Lachow, Irving, "Reforming Pentagon Strategic Decisionmaking" (2006). Strategic Forums. 21.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/strategic-forums/21