John Nagl Named to QDR Independent Panel

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that its President, Dr. John Nagl, has been named to the independent panel to review the Department of Defense’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). 

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce that its President, Dr. John Nagl, has been named to the independent panel to review the Department of Defense’s 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). 

According to the Department of Defense, "the bipartisan panel is required to submit a report by July 2010 to Congress assessing the QDR, its recommendations, stated and implied assumptions, and any vulnerabilities of the strategy and force structure underlying the report."
 
As stated on the DOD website, "the QDR will set a long-term course for DOD as it assesses the threats and challenges that the nation faces and re-balances DOD's strategies, capabilities, and forces to address today's conflicts and tomorrow's threats."

The complete 20 member panel includes:
•    The Honorable William J. Perry, Co-Chair
•    The Honorable Stephen J. Hadley, Co-Chair
•    The Honorable Richard L. Armitage
•    The Honorable Jack Dyer Crouch II
•    The Honorable Charles Curtis
•    The Honorable Rudy F. deLeon
•    The Honorable Joan A. Dempsey
•    The Honorable Eric S. Edelman
•    The Honorable Sherri W. Goodman
•    Admiral David E. Jeremiah, USN (Ret)
•    General George A. Joulwan, USA (Ret)
•    General John (Jack) Keane, USA (Ret)
•    Dr. Richard H. Kohn
•    The Honorable John F. Lehman, Jr.
•    The Honorable Alice C. Maroni
•    Dr. John Nagl
•    Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. USA (Ret)
•    The Honorable James M. Talent
•    Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper, USMC (Ret)
•    General Larry D. Welch, USAF (Ret)

Dr. John Nagl is also a member of the Defense Policy Board, a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Dr. Nagl is the author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife:  Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam and was on the writing team that produced the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual.

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