National Security Strategy: Recommendations for U.S. Defense Budget Reforms
The National Security Strategy MiPAL has been updated with Small Wars Journal publications examining the current thinking on how to strengthen counterinsurgency operations and the debate over the manpower ratios required to implement counterinsurgency strategies, remarks by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on U.S. national security posture and at the National Defense University's Conference on Military Professionalism, a Heritage Foundation report featuring recommendations for U.S. defense budget reforms, Congressional Research Service reports on the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), appropriations for foreign operations, and the use of national security letters in foreign intelligence investigations, a Council on Foreign Relations article assessing the state of U.S. national security spending, and a report from the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies analyzing the challenges associated with the lack of Presidential executive authority for the integration of interagency efforts on priority national security missions. Please see the Recently Added Documents section for the latest on this topic - the newest updates are in bold.
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