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.
Transition Memo:
Transition 5210 –Defense Transformation and Global Defense Posture Realignment
Defense Transformation
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Chronology for Defense Transformation
Presidential Candidate Bush's Remarks at the Citadel (September 23, 1999)
NSPD-3, Defense Strategy, Force Structure, and Procurement (February 15, 2001)
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 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.
2001 Quadrennial Defense Review Report -Paradigm Shift in Force Planning (September 30, 2001)
2006 Quadrennial Defense Review Report-Refining the Department's Force Planning Construct for Wartime
National Defense Strategy (June 2008)
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.
Date: 30 September 2001
Author(s): Office of the Secretaryof 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 tohandle contingency operations in four regions,act quickly/stop aggression in two regions,anddecisively 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.
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 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.
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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Chronology for Global Defense Posture Realignment
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.
Summary of Conclusions of Principals Committee Meeting on Global Presence (October 2, 2003)
Summary of Conclusions of Principals Committee Meeting on Global Posture (May 20, 2004)
White House Press Release (November 25, 2003)
Revised Summary of Discussion of NSC Meeting on Global Posture (July 19, 2004)
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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President Bush's Remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention (August 16, 2004)
Date: 17 September 2004
Author(s): United States Department of Defense(Douglas J. Feith wrote 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 consultationwith allies.
DOD Report to Congress on StrengtheningU.S. Global Defense Posture (September 2004)
President Bush's Joint Press Statement with Japanese Prime Minister (June 29, 2006)
U.S.-Japan Realignment Roadmap (May 1, 2006)
Date: 16 August 2004
Author(s): George W. Bush (speech)
Description: Bush highlights veterans’ funding increases, need to fight GWOT, justification for Iraq, importance of American foreign action, hazards of withdrawing prematurely, support for troops with supplemental funding.
Date:1 May 2006
Author(s):Office the Spokesman, United States Department of State (suspected)o
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.
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.
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.