The upcoming Pentagon assessment aimed at cutting hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending will likely start with the same threat scenarios that informed the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, but will use a different process to reconsider the need for longstanding missions, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today. The department's classified depictions of threats to international security -- called defense-planning scenarios -- each include a corresponding mission for U.S. military forces and a strategic-level concept of operation for carrying...
