DOD reviews its efficiency on key war-related issues

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DOD reviews its efficiency on key war-related issues
By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, May 10, 2008

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Defense Department will look at how it is organized to meet the needs of troops in the fight, officials said Thursday.

The “Roles and Missions Review” is expected to be completed in November and will look at how the Defense Department is meeting seven key missions from a materiel, training, logistics and doctrine perspective, officials said at a briefing with reporters.

“We’re really trying to look at it from a perspective of what do we need capability-wise to deliver to the warfighter in order to be able to execute the missions that are laid out, again, all the way back to the strategic documents that are in the National Military (and) National Defense Strategy,” a senior military said.

The congressionally mandated review will look at the issue “holistically” from a materiel, training, logistics and doctrine perspective, the senior military official said.

But a Defense expert said such reviews are more about service rivalries, bureaucratic turf wars and ways to cut costs rather than helping the warfighter.


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