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Building a 21st Century Military
Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA), Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.) Lt. Gen. Michael M. Dunn, President, Air Force Association, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) Lt. Gen. Stephen Speakes, Deputy Chief of Staff, G8, Director of Force Development Discussion Moderated by: Lawrence J. Korb, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress In a little over one month, a new administration will have the opportunity to manage a significant realignment of U.S. defense and national security priorities. This process will not occur in a vacuum. Today's security imperatives and budgetary realities will require the next administration to make hard decisions and difficult trade-offs on competing visions of the military and its role in implementing national security strategy. These trade-offs will have wide-ranging consequences for the size and structure of the force, and which procurement and modernization options are feasible in order to advance overall U.S. national security interests. In order to make ...
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