Inside the Pentagon highlights

Some must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Pentagon:

1. The Pentagon's top military leaders intend to discuss how to best respond to adversaries who purposefully act just below the threshold to provoke U.S. military action, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford.

Dunford: Military leaders to discuss adversaries operating below threshold

2. U.S. Special Operations Command has finalized a set of strategic documents intended to help rebalance its efforts to understand regional issues and forge new relationships with allies, according to a spokesman.

SOCOM finalizes strategic documents to help rebalance efforts

3. The Pentagon's fiscal year 2017 information technology budget takes risks in the area of modernization because of ongoing fiscal constraints, according to Defense Department IT leaders.

Halvorsen: Fiscal constraints driving risk into IT modernization