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DEFENSE ALTERNATIVES: A Strawman Vision — The Military We Ought to Have in Five Years… and Beyond
IN BRIEF
• Our strategy and force planning is focused only on present problems and those in the near term, while failing to make decisions that go beyond recent trends.
• The current force planning does not see the important shift in the active-reserve
force relationship.• We should develop a joint “prevent component” with enhanced strategic speed, agility, and expeditionary capabilities from about 20% of the current active
component.
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