Background and Formulation

Assessment and Debate

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The Quadrennial Defense Review 2001
Office of the Secretary of Defense, 30 September 2001, (.pdf file).
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Strategic Defense Review in Context:  Schedule of Pentagon Reviews and Budgets
Cindy Williams. MIT Security Studies Program, 2001.

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Background and Formulation

Background Briefing on the QDR
"Senior Defense Official". DoD News Briefing, 1 October 2001.

Bureaucracy to Battlefield
Donald H. Rumsfeld. DoD Speech, 10 September 2001.

Testimony Prepared for Delivery
Donald H. Rumsfeld. Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, 5 September 2001.

Interservice Static in Space
Ann Roosevelt. Air Force Magazine (September 2001).

Briefing on Defense Planning Guidance
Paul Wolfowitz. DoD News Briefing, 16 August 2001.
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Donald H. Rumsfeld Interview with PBS Newshour's Ray Suarez
16 August 2001.
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Rumsfeld Death Watch
Timothy Noah. Slate Magazine (7 August 2001).

News Briefing by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
DoD, 3 August 2001.
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

'We should be able to change and rearrange.'
A Conversation with Air Force Secretary James G. Roche
Washington, D.C.: National Guard Association of the United States, August 2001.

News Briefing on the Quadrennial Defense Review
Transcript
Donald H. Rumsfeld, DoD, 18 July 2001.
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Testimony of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Hugh Shelton, and Dov Zakheim on the Fiscal Year 2002 National Defense Authorization Budget Request
House Armed Services Committee, 28 June 2001.

Guidance and Terms for Reference for the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 22 June 2001, "classified contents removed", (.pdf file).
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Special DoD News Briefing- Conventional Forces Study
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 22 June 2001.

Senate Armed Services Committee -- Hearing on Defense Strategy Review
testimony of Donald H. Rumsfeld and Hugh Shelton, 21 June 2001.
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Prepared Testimony of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on Defense Strategy Review, 21 June 2001, (.pdf file).
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

DoD Background Briefing on the Quadrennial Defense Review
Transcript
"Senior Defense Official and Senior Military Official." DoD, 14 June 2001.
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

DoD Briefing on Morale and Quality of Life Study
Slides (.pdf file)
Transcript
David Jeremiah. DoD, 13 June 2001.
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

DoD Briefing on Defense Transformation
Slides (.pdf file)
Transcript
Jim McCarthy. DoD, 12 June 2001.
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Revising the Two MTW Force Shaping Paradigm
Steven Metz, ed. Carlisle, PA: Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, April 2001 (.pdf file).

Rumsfeld Stumbles
William M. Arkin. washingtonpost.com, 26 March 2001.

Rumsfeld and Innovation Bring Changes for Defense
Richard N. Perle. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 23 March 2001.

Rumsfeld Outlines Defense Overhaul:
Reorganization May Alter, Kill Weapons Systems
Thomas E. Ricks. washingtonpost.com, 23 March 2001.

Defense Planning: Opportunities to Improve Strategic Reviews
Washington, DC: General Accounting Offices, GAO-01-514R, 20 March 2001.

Concepts for Army Transformation
a briefing for the Transformation Task Force of the Rumsfeld/Marshall Review by Col. Douglas A. Macgregor, 13 March 2001 (.pdf file).
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Prepared Statement of Dr. Paul Wolfowitz
Advance Questions and Answers -- Dr. Paul Wolfowitz
confirmation hearing before The Senate Armed Services Committee, 27 February 2001 (.pdf files).
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Paradoxes of post-Cold War US Defense Policy:
An Agenda for the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review
PDA Briefing Memo 18. Cambridge MA: Commonwealth Institute, February 2001.

A Strategy for a Long Peace
(Executive Summary)
Steven Kosiak, Andrew Krepinevich and Michael Vickers. Washignton, DC: Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 30 January 2001.

Defense Planning in a Decade of Change:
Lessons from the Base Force, Bottom-Up Review, and Quadrennial Defense Review
Eric V. Larson, David T. Orletsky, and Kristin Leuschner. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2001.

Managing Quadrennial Defense Review Integration:
An Overview (2001)
John Y. Schrader, Roger Allen Brown, and Leslie Lewis. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2001.

USAF Recapitalization, QDR Themes & Messages
USAF memos, unclassified and undated (.pdf file).
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

QDR2001 - On Point for the Nation...Persuasive in Peace, Invincible in War
Army briefing on QDR, undated (.pdf file).
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Base Force
Lorna S. Jaffe. Air Force Magazine (December 2000). (.pdf file).

Report of the National Defense University Quadrennial Defense Review 2001 Working Group
Michele A. Flournoy, project director. Washington, DC: National Defense University, November 2000 (.pdf file).

The Revenge of the Melians:
Asymmetric Threats and the next QDR
Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. Washington, DC: National Defense Univesity, November 2000.

Transforming Military Forces
Paul Davis. Chapter in Carlucci, Hunter and Khalilzad, "Taking Charge: A Bipartisan Report to the President Elect on Foreign Policy and National Security". Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2000 (.pdf file).

American Strategy:
Issues and Alternatives for the Quadrennial Defense Review
Steven Metz. Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, September 2000 (.pdf file).

The Strategic Meeting Engagement:
Experimentation and Transforming the U.S. Military
James Blackwell, principal investigator. Arlington, VA: Science Applications International Corp., 20 July 2000 (4.9MB .pdf file).
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Military Base Closures:
Time for Another Round?
David E. Lockwood. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 15 June 2000.
Posted on the National Council for Science and the Environment Website.

Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR):
Joint Staff Road Ahead
Emmitt Gibson. Presentation to Joint Staff QDR Preparation Group Planning Meeting, 2 March 2000.
Posted on the Marine Forces Pacific (USMC) Website.

The QDR: Improve the Process to Improve the Product
David E. Snodgrass. Parameters (Spring 2000).

U.S. Military Transformation - Applications
U.S. Military Transformation - Program Assessments
Cambridge, MA: Commonwealth Institute Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) Debate Page.

Planning America's Security:
Lessons from the National Defense Panel
John E. Tedstrom and John G. McGinn. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1999.

Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) Analysis:
A Retrospective Look at Joint Staff Participation
John Y. Schrader, Leslie Lewis, and Roger Allen Brown. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1999.

Military Strategy Under Review
Carl Conetta and Charles Knight. Foreign Policy In Focus (January 1999).

The Quadrennial Defense Review Process:
Lessons Learned from the 1997 Review and Options for the Future
James S. Thomason, Paul H. Richanbach, Sharon M. Fiore,and Deborah P. Christie. Alexandria, VA: Institute for Defense Analyses, August 1998 (.pdf file).
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Goldwater-Nichols Act : A Ten Year Report Card
Paul M. Besson. Cambridge, MA: Center for Information Policy Research, Harvard University, May 1998 (.pdf file).

U.S. Strategy and Force Plans:
The Bottom Up Review to the FY1999 Budget Submission
Anthony H. Cordesman. Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, April 1998.

Assessment and Debate

Operationalizing the QDR:  Doing the Right Thing for the Nation
John P. Jumper. Washington, DC: DFI International Aerospace Power Seminar Series, 16 October 2001 (.pdf file).
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Key Review Offers Scant Guidance on Handling '4th Generation' Threats
Elaine M. Grossman. Inside the Pentagon, 4 October 2001.
Posted on the Defense and the National Interest Website.

The New QDR:  All You Need to Know in One Painless Page
"A Senior Congressional Staffer". Defense and the National Interest Website, October 2001.

Reforging the Sword:  Forces for a 21st Century Security Strategy
Daniel Smith, Marcus Corbin, and Christopher Hellman. Washington, D.C.: Center for Defense Information, September 2001. (.pdf file)

Bomber Questions
John A. Tirpak. Air Force Magazine, September 2001.

Savaging Donald Rumsfeld
Philip Gold. Seattle, WA: Discovery Institute, 28 August 2001.

Dreaming About War
Nicolas Lemann. The New Yorker, 16 July 2001.
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Why the Pentagon Fears Rumsfeld's Review
Philip Gold. Seattle, WA: Discovery Institute, 13 June 2001.

The Illusion of a Grand Strategy
James Der Derian. The New York Times, 25 May 2001.
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

The Military Needs To Live Within Its Means
Cindy Williams. Global Beat Syndicate, 23 May 2001.

A New US Military Strategy? Issues and Options
Carl Conetta and Charles Knight. Cambridge, MA: Commonwealth Institute, 21 May 2001.

Briefing Book on the Bush Administration's Strategic Defense Review
Press briefing. Washington, DC: National Press Club, 14 May 2001.
Posted on the Foreign Policy in Focus Website.
Strategic Defense Review in Context:
Schedule of Pentagon Reviews and Budgets
Cindy Williams, MIT Security Studies Program
U.S. Military Strategy - What's at Issue in the Rumsfeld Review?
Carl Conetta, Project on Defense Alternatives
Transforming the Military
Cindy Williams, MIT Security Studies Program
Nuclear Weapons: Key Issues for the Nuclear Posture Review
Theresa Hitchens, Center for Defense Information
Ballistic Missile Defense in the Bush Defense Review:
Problems and Prospects
William Hartung, World Policy Institute
Space in Military Planning
Dan Smith, Center for Defense Information
We Have Seen the Enemy, and It Is China
John Gershman, Foreign Policy in Focus
Financial Accountability and Contractor Oversight Failures
Danielle Brian and Beth Daley, Project on Government Oversight
Improving Efficiency: Miracles Are Not Likely
Cindy Williams, MIT Security Studies Program
Gauging Secretary Rumsfeld's Leadership On Readiness Issues
Charles Knight, Project on Defense Alternatives
Pentagon Studies: Opportunity for Change
Dan Koslofsky, Council for Livable World Education Fund

Critiques of the Defense Department's Strategic Review
Press briefing. Washington, DC: National Press Club, 14 May 2001.
Transcript
Posted on the Foreign Policy In Focus Website.

Guidelines for Modernizing America's Armed Forces
Jack Spencer. Washington DC: The Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, 28 March 2001.

The Paradoxes of post-Cold War US Defense Policy:
An Agenda for the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review
PDA Briefing Memo 18. Cambridge MA: Commonwealth Institute, February 2001.

Concepts for Transformation from Breaking the Phalanx
Douglas A. Macgregor. Briefing for the Raytheon Corporation, Dallas, TX, 19 February 2001.
3.8 MB PowerPoint Presentation (free PowerPoint Viewer).

Military Makeover: Fight two wars at once? That's old thinking
Elaine M Grossman. Boston Globe, 7 January 2001.
Posted on the Commonwealth Institute Website.

Whither the Next National Military Strategy?
Marcus Corbin. Washington DC: Center for Defense Information, November 2000.

What the Air Force Needs from the Next Quadrennial Review
Loren B. Thompson. Arlington VA: Lexington Institute, 6 November 2000.

Can the United States Spend Less on Defense?
Toward a Smaller, More Efficient, and More Relevant US Military
Carl Conetta. Cambridge MA: Commonwealth Institute, October 2000.

The 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review:
Here We Go Again -- Or Do We?
Daniel Smith. Washington DC: Center for Defense Information, October 2000. Posted on the Global Beat Website.

Aerospace Power Meets the QDR
John T. Correll. Air Force Magazine (July 2000).

Rethinking Two War Strategies
Michael E. O'Hanlon. Joint Force Quarterly (Spring 2000) (.pdf file).

Transforming Aerospace Power
Frank Finelli. Airpower Journal (Summer 1999).

Why No Transformation?
Andrew Krepinevich. National Interest (4 February 1999).
Posted on the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments Website.