The timing and scope of the Defense Department's Quadrennial Defense Review need to be improved, according to a General Accounting Office report released today. While the senior Pentagon leadership's close involvement with the review and the adoption of a new defense strategy that underscores the need to transform the military were among the QDR's strengths, "several weaknesses in the department's process, analysis, and reporting limited the review's overall usefulness as a means for fundamentally reassessing U.S. defense plans and programs,"...
