The U.S. Department of Defense's Planning Process: Components and Challenges

This report—Phase Two of a three-phase project— explores the current defense planning process used by the U.S. Department of Defense, with a focus on how scenarios are developed and employed to support defense planning. The authors examine and critique how scenarios are used in current planning processes, based on an assessment of unclassified documents and dialogues with current and former participants in the process.

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