- Date:
- 10 November 2008
- Author(s):
- Elisabeth Cordray (Defense Policy and Strategy Directorate)
- Classification Level:
- Secret
- Citation:
- National Security Council. Executive Office of the President. Defense Transformation and Global Defense Realignment. Elisabeth Cordray. Transition 5210.
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- International Affairs & Policy Positions
Defense Transformation
Transition Memo
Transition 5210 –Defense Transformation and Global Defense Posture Realignment
Memo attachments
| Item | Details |
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Chronology for Defense Transformation |
Date: 10 November 2008 (assumed to be released with transition memo) Author(s): National Security Council (assumed) Description: Timeline of defense transformation, outlining major NSPDs, DoD organization changes, and strategy change releases. Includes tab references at appropriate points. |
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Presidential Candidate Bush's Remarks at the Citadel (September 23, 1999) |
Date: 23 September 1999 Author(s): George W. Bush Description: Candidate Bush calls for increased military funding, ending Clinton-era peacekeeping deployments, and orienting military towards technology adoption/rapid deployment, ultimately to create a force that can respond to post-Cold-War rogue regime threats. |
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NSPD-3, Defense Strategy, Force Structure, and Procurement (February 15, 2001) |
CLASSIFIED |
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2001 Quadrennial Defense Review Report: Paradigm Shift in Force Planning (September 30, 2001) |
Date: 30 September 2001 Author(s): Office of the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with Joint Chiefs of Staff Description: Outlines measures to meet wide spectrum of DoD requirements and provide range of options in countering threats. DoD working to handle contingency operations in four regions, act quickly/stop aggression in two regions, and decisively win in one. Calls for standardization of domestic crisis response. Calls for Northeast/Southwest Asia deployment focus and tailored units for each region/deterrence. Outlines then-current U.S. force strength across branches, active/reserve/National Guard. |
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2006 Quadrennial Defense Review Report: Refining the Department's Force Planning Construct for Wartime |
Date: February 2006 Author(s): Office of the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with Joint Chiefs of Staff Description: Update to 2001 strategy. States that U.S. forces need more flexibility than 2001 review, that U.S. forces need to orient towards irregular warfare primarily, and that “decisive defeat” in one region is misleading when U.S. operations in the GWOT have much longer time horizons and are outside bounds of conventional military operations. Outlines three priorities—defending the homeland, fighting the war on terror/counterinsurgency, and conventional warfare. Each condition defined with steady-state and surge goals. |
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National Defense Strategy (June 2008) |
Date: June 2008 Author(s): Office of the Secretary of Defense Description: Defines global strategic environment as fight against violent extremism, rogue states, and potential near-peer competitors of Russia and China. DoD goals defined as defending the homeland, winning the GWOT, promoting security/U.S.-aligned alliances, deterring conflict, and winning conventional war. Document outlines influencing key actors’ choices, stopping proliferation, supporting alliances, maintaining freedom of action, and unifying DoD efforts. |
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Chronology for Global Defense Posture Realignment |
Date: 10 November 2008 (assumed released with transition memo) Author(s): National Security Council (assumed) Description: Outlines timeline of global defense posture realignment, noting major changes in DoD organization, budgeting, troop commitments, and alliance expansions/treaties. Document notes tabs corresponding to major events. |
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Summary of Conclusions of Principals Committee Meeting on Global Presence (October 2, 2003) |
CLASSIFIED |
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White House Press Release (November 25, 2003) |
Date: 25 November 2003 Author(s): George W. Bush (statement) Description: Emphasizes importance of strengthened, transformed overseas posture and international alliances to meeting evolving security threats. |
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Summary of Conclusions of Principals Committee Meeting on Global Posture (May 20, 2004) |
CLASSIFIED |
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Revised Summary of Discussion of NSC Meeting on Global Posture (July 19, 2004) |
CLASSIFIED |
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President Bush's Remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention (August 16, 2004) |
Date: 16 August 2004 Author(s): George W. Bush (speech) Description: Bush highlights veterans’ funding increases, need to fight the GWOT, justification for Iraq, importance of American foreign action, hazards of withdrawing prematurely, support for troops with supplemental funding. |
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DOD Report to Congress on Strengthening U.S. Global Defense Posture (September 2004) |
Date: 17 September 2004 Author(s): United States Department of Defense (Douglas J. Feith wrote the forward) Description: Report on DoD efforts to strengthen and transform defense efforts, the culmination of reviews since 2001. Highlights need to evolve foreign deployments, conduct next Base Realignment and Closure round. Discusses efforts to secure greater operational flexibility, rapid deployment, expand alliances, focus on capabilities over numbers, sustainability of deployments on families. Document then outlines region-by-region changes to DoD policy as well as consultation with allies. |
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U.S.-Japan Realignment Roadmap (May 1, 2006) |
Date: 1 May 2006 Author(s): Office the Spokesman, United States Department of State (suspected) Description: Outlines U.S.-Japan agreement to redesign U.S. deployment in Okinawa, Guam, specifically land return, funding, unit redeployment, etc. Document also outlines U.S.-Japan agreement to alter usage of Yokota Air Base, missile defense, training relocation. Document includes map of U.S. base placement. |
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President Bush's Joint Press Statement with Japanese Prime Minister (June 29, 2006) |
Date: 29 June 2006 Author(s): George W. Bush, Junichiro Koizumi (Japanese PM) Description: Press conference between Bush and Japanese PM. Leaders discuss energy, Iraq, North Korea, U.S.-Japan relations. Leaders take questions after remarks. |
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President Bush's Joint Press Statement with South Korean President (April 19, 2008) |
Date: 19 April 2008 Author(s): George W. Bush, Lee Myung-Bak (President of South Korea) Description: Press conference discusses North Korea, foreign military sales, Afghanistan and Iraq, free trade agreements. Leaders take questions after remarks. |