Quadrennial Defense Review
DoD as it assesses the threats and challenges that the nation faces and re-balances DoD's strategies, capabilities, and forces to address today's conflicts and tomorrow's threats.
Excerpt from Charlie Rose Show
"Where have you not succeeded that you hoped you would be further along?"
Charlie Rose asked USD(P) Flournoy - March 19, 2010
USD(P) Michele Flournoy:
That's a great question. One of the things I aspire to is to really take a
look at how we build -- work with other countries to build their capacity;
security assistance at large. You know, the QDR, our national security
strategy, it all talks about how important to US interests it is to have
capable partners who can work with us on common problems. The mechanisms we
use to actually build that capacity all from the Cold War. They're slow.
They're bureaucratic. They're unresponsive. They're meant to deliver large
numbers of big platforms over many years, not, you know, near-term equipment
that somebody who's under attack needs tomorrow. And so figuring out do we
reform that system for a new environment and in support of the right kind of
strategy, which is one of building.
