Strategic appraisal 1997 : strategy and defense planning for the 21st century / Zalmay M. Khalilzad and David A. Ochmanek, editors.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

United States. Air Force.

Rand Corporation.

Project Air Force (U.S.)

Khalilzad, Zalmay.

Ochmanek, David A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military planning--United States.

Military planning.

Twenty-first century.

United States--Strategic aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 351 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 1997.

Summary:

This publication brings together the views of several experts in both the process and substance of defense planning. It argues that an ambitious U.S. national strategy of global leadership will be needed to protect and advance U.S. interests and identifies a range of possible future missions for which we need to prepare. Essays in the volume explore key issues that will arise as the United States fashions its military forces for the coming decades. These include: the roles of military power in U.S. national security strategy; new approaches to planning and evaluating future military force postures; the nature of future military challenges, both in defeating large-scale aggression and meeting smaller-scale threats; which operational capabilities should receive the highest priority; what level of forces future budgets are likely to support; and how the Department of Defense should downsize its infrastructure and reform its management practices. This volume will be of interest to professional defense planners and analysts, as well as students of defense strategy and operations.

Contents:

Strategy and defense planning for the coming century / Zalmay Khalilzad The context for defense planning: the environment, strategy, and missions / David Ochmanek and Stephen T. Hosmer Adaptiveness in defense planning: the basis of a new framework / Paul K. Davis, David Gompert, and Richard L. Kugler New principles for force sizing / Paul K. Davis and Richard L. Kugler Capabilities for major regional conflicts / Paul K. Davis, Richard Hillestad, and Natalie Crawford From sideshow to center stage: the role of the Army and Air Force in military operations other than war / Jennifer M. Taw and Alan Vick. Managing regional security: toward a new U.S. military posture overseas / Richard L. Kugler What can likely defense budgets sustain? / David S.C. Chu Trading butter for guns: managing infrastructure reductions / Carl J. Dahlman and C. Robert Roll

Notes:

"Prepared for the U.S. Air Force."