Pentagon officials undertaking the Quadrennial Defense Review will adopt a "pragmatic" approach to the debate over whether to cease describing cooperative security missions as irregular warfare, a senior defense official said today. "There's lots of terminological debate," the official acknowledged to reporters at the Pentagon. Inside the Pentagon reported this month that a QDR issue paper developed in March at U.S. Southern Command argues that security cooperation efforts and so-called phase-zero missions aimed at preventing conflict should not be described...
