Officials at U.S. Strategic Command have agreed to adopt a relatively new analytical process that uses the command's military plans as the basis for crafting resource recommendations in next year's budgeting cycle, according to an Institute for Defense Analyses official who helped pilot the program at several commands. The move would make the Omaha, NE-based command the first functional combatant command to embrace the "linking-plans-to-resources" process. The Pentagon's geographic combatant commands, with the exception of U.S. Africa Command, have been...