What the Pentagon Left Out:

Feb. 7, 2006

Did you notice that the latest QDR, which contains so much about everything else, contains no force structure chart at all? Each of the three earlier top-to-bottom reviews (in 1993, 1997, and 2001) provided details about forthcoming force structure. Check here for a summary of what the Pentagon actually does say about the subject. It’s not much.

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