In QDR Meeting, Top Brass Explore Building Partnerships to Defeat Terrorism

By Jason Sherman / May 3, 2005 at 5:00 AM
U.S. military leaders guiding the Quadrennial Defense Review were at an all-day meeting today to consider what major changes in combat gear and force structure are necessary to improve the Pentagon's ability to wage a long-term battle against sophisticated terrorist networks. Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Paul Wolfowitz, the outgoing deputy defense secretary, are leading the QDR's "capability mix" panel's third high-level "roundtable" discussion. Along with the service vice chiefs, Wolfowitz...

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