Wolfowitz: Planning Guidance Eliminates Two-War Yardstick

By Thomas Duffy / August 16, 2001 at 5:00 AM
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said today the long-awaited Defense Planning Guidance Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will issue soon makes clear that U.S. forces will no longer be measured against the ability to fight two major wars nearly simultaneously. Because of this change, he said, the Pentagon may alter its force structure to ensure forces deployed to critical areas around the world have the ability to win decisively against potential enemies. The two major-war yardstick has been a mainstay of...

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