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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Defense Alternatives: A Strawman Vision – The Military We Ought to Have in Five Years…and Beyond

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