The Pentagon will launch its Quadrennial Defense Review this fall with the aim of developing recommendations for President Obama on how to implement huge defense budget cuts with long-term strategic implications, a senior defense official said today. The comments, which came during a question-and-answer session with reporters, broke the Defense Department's silence on when and how the QDR might begin building on the work of the recent Strategic Choices and Management Review (SCMR), which examined the potential impact of full...