Pentagon officials are trying to decouple the Quadrennial Defense Review from Russia's annexation of Crimea and other recent events in Eastern Europe as a way of countering calls by House lawmakers for the document to be rewritten. The review was released in early March, before Russia's incursion into Ukraine, but House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) claims the QDR does not adequately reflect global volatility and instead places too much emphasis on cooperation and nuclear arms reductions to...
