ASP reports are designed to move public debate beyond sound bites to a more thorough and fact-based consideration of critical issues.
DEFENSE ALTERNATIVES: An Introduction
IN BRIEF
• The defense planning system needs to be redesigned and not developed solely in reaction to crisis.
• Instead of being a rational top-down process, the current capabilities-contingencies risk-strategy nexus is ad hoc and largely opaque.
• We need to create a credible and reasoned understanding of the function of the United States military in the future.
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