Defense Budget address

• Published in: Presidents & prime ministers Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 31 - 34
• Main Author: Wolfowitz, Paul D
• Format: Journal Article Magazine Article
• Language: English
• Published: Glen Ellyn EQES, Inc 01-01-2002
• Subjects: Cabinet officers; Defense spending; Federal budget; Government agencies; International relations; Management; Military strategy; Speeches, lectures and essays; United States; United States > US
• ISSN: 1060-5088

In a speech given by Paul Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of Defense of the US, at the Preparted Testimony on the FY 2003 Defense Budget Request to the Senate Appropriations Committee - Subcommittee on Defense in Washington, DC on February 27, 2003, Wolfowitz said that among the new directions set in the Quadrennial Defense Review, the following are among the most important. First, the Department of Defense decided to move away from the two Major Theater War (MTW) force sizing construct, which called for maintaining forces capable of marching on and occupying the capitals of two adversaries and changing their regimes - the same time. Second, it agreed that we needed to shift planning from the "threat-based" model to a "capabilities-based" model for the future. Third, this capabilities-based approach places great emphasis on defining where the department of Defense wants to go with the transformation of its forces.