Pentagon sets budget for wars of the future
guardian.co.uk / 01-02-2010
The Pentagon is discarding its core strategy of being prepared to fight two large-scale wars simultaneously in favour of coping with smaller conflicts, launching pre-emptive assaults to contain terrorists and the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and combating attacks in cyberspace.
The defence secretary, Robert Gates, presented what he called a "wartime" Quadrennial Defence Review (QDR) of military thinking and requirements today, which said that while the US must continue to maintain a robust force capable of protecting the country from "capable nation-state aggressors", the focus of future American attention will be on the kinds of conflicts the US has been fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq while holding off "the transnational terrorist threats, including al-Qaida".
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