TITLE

What Went Wrong with the Defense Review

AUTHOR(S)
Spinney, Franklin
PUB. DATE
September 1997
SOURCE
Challenge (05775132);Sep/Oct97, Vol. 40 Issue 5, p6
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Opinion. Presents the author's view on the Defense Department's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) result released by Defense Secretary William Cohen on May 19, 1997. Overview of the results of the QDR; Internal contradictions and priorities of the QDR; Why the QDR failed to produce a realistic post-cold war military strategy.
ACCESSION #
9710106883

Tags: UNITED States. Dept. of Defense

 

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