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National Military Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction

It may not have quite the polish and pageantry we're used to from the White House book club, but this Defense Department packet [.pdf] released Friday details the national "strategic vision for countering WMD."

Also important, I guess.

From the American Forces Information Service:

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gave U.S. Strategic Command the DoD lead on WMD issues in January 2005, so STRATCOM will now "operationalize" this strategic guidance, [Army Brig. Gen. Robert] Caslen, [Joint Staff's deputy director for the war on terror] said. The command will develop specific tasks and responsibilities required to carry out the defense strategy and assign them to the services, combatant commands and DoD agencies. Officials expect that report to be completed by late summer.

The results of these efforts and ultimately their success will have a major, long-term impact on the United States, Caslen said.

He described the conditions that would demonstrate the policy had proven successful. "Fifty years from now, life as you and I know it as a freedom-loving society is the same, (and) we have not been attacked by terrorists who have weapons of mass destruction, in spite of their greatest efforts to obtain them and do that," he said. "And your kids and your grandkids have not experienced the fear of trying to live in a world like that.

"If this is going to happen 50 years from now, this strategy and what STRATCOM is doing will play a significant role in making that happen."

Previously:  White House Releases National Security Strategy

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National Military Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction

It may not have quite the polish and pageantry we're used to from the White House book club, but this Defense Department packet [.pdf] released Friday details the national "strategic vision for countering WMD."

Also important, I guess.

From the American Forces Information Service:

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gave U.S. Strategic Command the DoD lead on WMD issues in January 2005, so STRATCOM will now "operationalize" this strategic guidance, [Army Brig. Gen. Robert] Caslen, [Joint Staff's deputy director for the war on terror] said. The command will develop specific tasks and responsibilities required to carry out the defense strategy and assign them to the services, combatant commands and DoD agencies. Officials expect that report to be completed by late summer.

The results of these efforts and ultimately their success will have a major, long-term impact on the United States, Caslen said.

He described the conditions that would demonstrate the policy had proven successful. "Fifty years from now, life as you and I know it as a freedom-loving society is the same, (and) we have not been attacked by terrorists who have weapons of mass destruction, in spite of their greatest efforts to obtain them and do that," he said. "And your kids and your grandkids have not experienced the fear of trying to live in a world like that.

"If this is going to happen 50 years from now, this strategy and what STRATCOM is doing will play a significant role in making that happen."

Previously:  White House Releases National Security Strategy