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Event Summary
Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
Every four years, the Department of Defense, as required by law,
conducts a review of its forces, resources, and programs and
presents the findings of their Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) to
the President and the Congress. The QDR is instrumental in shaping
budgets, strategy, and force structure. In addition to reviewing
primary principles guiding the QDR and examining it from the
perspective of each branch of the armed forces, our speakers will
discuss the emerging role of space in military operations, the
evolving roles of the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security,
force sizing for the war on terrorism, and bringing active and
reserve components back into balance.
More About the Speakers
Welcome
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow for Homeland Security and Defense, The
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International
Studies, The Heritage Foundation
Jack Spencer
Senior Policy Analysts for Defense and National Security,
The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International
Studies,
The Heritage Foundation
Keynote Address
The Honorable Dov Zakheim
Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton, and former Undersecretary of
Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department
of Defense
Download PDF of Dov Zakheim's comments on The Quadrennial Defense
Review: Some Guiding Principles
Panel 1: Service Priorities for the QDR
Ronald O'Rourke
Specialist in National Defense, Congressional Research
Service
Daniel Goure, Ph.D.
Vice President, The Lexington Institute
Jack Spencer
Senior Policy Analyst, Defense and National Security, The
Heritage Foundation
Panel 2: Priorities for the Next
QDR
Ambassador Henry Cooper
Chairman, High Frontier
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow for Homeland Security and Defense, The
Heritage Foundation
Edward Bruner, Ph.D.
Specialist in National Defense,
Congressional Research Service
Hon. John Winkler, Ph.D.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Personnel,
U.S. Department of Defense