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DoD Strategic Guidance

National Security Strategy

Last published in 2006

America is at war

We must fight and win the war on terror

America must lead the way

Tough road ahead, but we will endure

Security Strategy founded on two pillars

• Promoting freedom, justice, and human dignity

• Confronting the challenges of our time by leading a

growing community of democracies

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National Security Strategy Essential Tasks

• Champion aspirations for human dignity

• Strengthen alliances to defeat terrorism and

prevent attacks against ourselves/our allies

• Work with others to defuse regional conflicts

• Prevent enemies from threatening with WMDs

• Ignite global economic growth through free

trade/markets

National Security Strategy Essential Tasks

• Expand development by opening societies

• Develop cooperation with other powers

• Transform national security institutions for 21st

century

• Engage opportunities/confront challenges of

globalization

National Defense Strategy

National Defense Strategy (NDS) comes from

the National Security Strategy (NSS)

NDS describes long-term challenges

NDS Strategic Framework

• U.S. plays an important role in maintaining

international security and stability.

• US interests.

• Security of US tied to broader international

system.

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National Defense Strategy (Objectives)

1. Defend the Homeland

2. Win the Long War

3. Promote Security

4. Deter Conflict

5. Win our Nation’s Wars

National Defense Strategy (Achieving Our Objectives)

Shape the Choices of Key States

Prevent Adversaries from Acquiring/Using WMD’s

Strengthen and Expand Alliances/Partnerships

Secure U.S. Strategic Access and Retain Freedom of

Action

Integrate and Unify Efforts: “Jointness”

National Defense Strategy (Capabilities, Means, and Risk)

Capabilities and Means

• Total Force

• Strategic Communications

• Intelligence/Information Sharing

• Technology and Equipment

• Organization

• Alliances/Partnerships

Risk

• Operational risk

• Future challenges risk

• Force management risk

• Institutional risk

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National Military Strategy

Consists of three main principles

Current security environment

• U.S. faces variety of threats

• Wider range of adversaries

• More complex/distributed battlespace

• Technology diffusion/access

National Military Objectives

• Protect the United States

• Prevent Conflict and Surprise Attacks

• Prevail Against Adversaries

National Military Strategy (Joint Forces)

Joint Forces increase range of options

Joint Force Attributes

• Fully Integrated

• Expeditionary

• Networked

• Decentralized

• Adaptable

• Decision Superiority

• Lethality

National Military Strategy (Force Structure and the Future)

NDS directs force sized for “1-4-2-1”

Issues for Planners:

• Baseline security posture

• Adequacy and presence

• Disengagement

• Escalation

• Force generation/transformation

Joint Vision for Future Warfighting

‘Full Spectrum Dominance’

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National Military Strategy (Future Warfighting)

Increase capabilities of partners

Strengthen intelligence

Protect critical bases of operation

Operate from the commons

Project and sustain forces in distant environments

Deny enemy sanctuaries

Conduct network-centric operations

Improve proficiency for irregular warfare

National Military Strategy (Future Warfighting Initiatives)

Joint Leader Development

Organizational Adaptation

Interagency Integration/Information Sharing

Global Information Grid

Intelligence Campaign Planning

Enhancing Overseas Posture

2008 Unified Command Plan (UCP)

Codifies a new “pandemic influenza” mission.

Tasks US Northern Command to plan department-

wide efforts to respond to an outbreak.

U.S. Strategic Command is assigned

responsibility for the department’s cyberspace

mission.

Assigns all combatant commanders responsibility

for planning and conducting military support to

stability, security, transition, and reconstruction

operations, humanitarian assistance, and disaster

relief.

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2008 Unified Command Plan (UCP)

U.S. Special Operations Command is assigned

responsibility for global operations against

terrorist networks, and U.S. Strategic Command

becomes responsible for combating weapons of

mass destruction and global missile defense.

Assigns central planning authorities for several

global missions, including pandemic influenza

response, cyberspace operations, global

operations against terrorist networks, combating

weapons of mass destruction, and global missile

defense.

Codify U.S. Pacific Command’s responsibility for

homeland defense operations in Hawaii, Guam

and other U.S. territories within its area of

responsibility.

Unified Command Plan Map (2008)

QDR General Content

1. Results of the review, including a discussion of the national defense

strategy and the force structure best suited to implement that strategy

at a low-to-moderate level of risk.

2. Assumed or defined national security interests that inform the national

defense strategy.

3. Threats to assumed or defined national security interests and the

scenarios developed in the examination of those threats.

4. Assumptions used in the review, including:

• Readiness status of U.S. forces.

• Cooperation of allies.

• Warning times.

• Levels of engagement in operations other than war and smaller-

scale contingencies and withdrawal from such operations

• Intensity, duration, and military and political end-states of conflicts

and smaller-scale contingencies.

Source: Title 10, U.S. Code, Subtitle A, Part I, Chapter 2, pg. 118 (d).

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QDR General Content

5. Effect on force structure and readiness for high-intensity combat and

operations other than war and smaller-scale contingencies.

6. Manpower and sustainment policies required to support engagement

in conflicts lasting longer than 120 days.

7. Anticipated roles and missions of reserve strength, capabilities, and

equipment to discharge those roles and missions.

8. Appropriate ratio of combat forces to support forces (commonly

referred to as the tooth-to-tail ratio).

9. The strategic and tactical air-lift, sea-lift, and ground transportation

capabilities required.

10. Forward presence, pre-positioning, and other anticipatory

deployments necessary for conflict deterrence and adequate military

response to anticipated conflicts.

Source: Title 10, U.S. Code, Subtitle A, Part I, Chapter 2, pg. 118 (d).

QDR General Content

11. Extent to which resources must be shifted among two or more

theaters in the event of conflict in such theaters.

12. Advisability of revisions to the Unified Command.

13. Effect on force structure of technologies anticipated to be available

for the ensuing 20 years.

14. National defense mission of the Coast Guard.

15. Any other matter the Secretary considers appropriate.

Source: Title 10, U.S. Code, Subtitle A, Part I, Chapter 2, pg. 118 (d).

2006 QDR Overview

Fighting the Long War

Operationalizing the Strategy

Reorienting Capabilities and Forces

Reshaping the Defense Enterprise

Developing a 21st Century Total Force

Achieving Unity of Effort

Source: Title 10, U.S. Code, Subtitle A, Part I, Chapter 2, pg. 118 (d).