CRS: Lawmakers Could Question U.S. Role, Missions In New QDR

By Jordana Mishory / March 6, 2014 at 3:40 PM
When lawmakers begin considering the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, they can question its helpfulness, the U.S. role in the world stage and the Defense Department's geographic and mission priorities, a recent Congressional Research Service report states. The Feb. 24 report , released a week before the Pentagon's four-year strategic plan came out on Tuesday, lays out a number of key issues Congress could delve into. To wit, lawmakers could question "to what extent, in what arenas, and at what cost,...

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