OPINIONS DIFFER ON TIMING OF OBAMA'S NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY

/ December 11, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Pentagon observers disagree on how soon President-elect Barack Obama's team will develop its new national security strategy and whether his administration will have time to conduct a new, sweeping national security review before completing the Pentagon's 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review. There are signs, however, that Obama's administration will revamp and broaden the strategy-development process and pressure the Pentagon to tame skyrocketing weapons costs as it crafts a national security strategy to end the Iraq war, finish the war in Afghanistan,...

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