| Summary: | In light of the limitations of the Clinton administration's 1993 Bottom-Up Review (BUR) of its defense posture, the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) must directly confront the political/military, technological, and budgetary issues facing the American military. The BUR suffered a significant gap between its postulated force levels and those projected by the administration's resource plans. The resulting budget shortfall was the result of a failure to control costs, increases in peacekeeping, nondefense programs in the defense budget, and excessive optimism about inflation. Consequently, the QDR must examine the assumptions underlying American military strategy and relate them to the realities of the nation's military structure. Details of five measures to address the imbalance between needs and resources are provided.
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