Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is significantly changing the focus of the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review at the prompting of military commanders who believe the assessment must take a broader view of future challenges, according to Defense Department sources. This wider scope will require the Pentagon to give greater weight to the role other federal agencies, nongovernmental organizations and coalition partners play in dealing with the four strategic problems Rumsfeld wants the department to address in the 2005 QDR. Accordingly, the...
