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Chapter 1 ⎯ Purpose and Needports it, seek to ensure that the U.S. focuses its efforts on four strategic objectives. These objectivesinclude:1) Secure the U.S. from Direct Attack: This military objective includes the dissuasion, deterrence,and defeat of organizations and states who seek to harm the U.S. and its citizens directly.2) Secure and Retain Strategic Access for Global Freedom of Action: Strategic access ensuresthe U.S. can access key regions of interest, access lines of communication and is able to promoteand influence the global security environment and the goals outlined in the NSS for itself and itsallies.3) Strengthen Alliances and Partnerships: A secure international system requires collective action.The U.S. has an interest in broad based and capable partnerships with like-minded states.This objective seeks to strengthen security relationships with traditional allies and friends, developingnew international partnerships, while working to increase the capabilities of our partners tocontend with common challenges.4) Establish Favorable Security Conditions: The objective directs the DoD counter aggression orcoercion targeted at U.S. partners and interests. Further, where dangerous political instability, aggression,or extremism threatens fundamental security interests, the U.S. will act with others tostrengthen peace. Specifically the U.S. military will conduct planning to create favorable internationalconditions and broad, secure, and lasting peace.1.2.1.4 The Quadrennial Defense Review (2001, 2006)Title 10, United States Code (U.S.C.) §118 states that “the Secretary of Defense shall every fouryears... conduct a comprehensive examination (to be known as a “quadrennial defense review”) of thenational defense strategy, force structure, force modernization plans, infrastructure, budget plan, andother elements of the defense program and policies of the United States with a view toward determiningand expressing the defense strategy of the United States and establishing a defense program forthe next 20 years.”The QDR sets forth a specific series of recommendations for implementing the goals and objectivesof the NSS and NDS. These recommendations are specific capabilities-based recommendations foreach service of the DoD that integrate current military capabilities and future projected military requirementsneeded to implement the NSS, NDS, and provide for global security and the nation’s strategicinterests. Based on the QDR, the DoD reorients its capabilities to meet national security demandsand current capabilities shortfalls. The QDR was presented to Congress in 2001. The reportemphasized the need for the Army to transform to a more expeditionary force, capable of rapidly projectingforce and deploying from stationing locations within the U.S. to disparate locations across theworld. The report noted that the Army lacked critical deployment and staying power capabilitiesneeded to influence national security and defense. The QDR in 2001 prescribed recommendations forthe Army to transform its forces to become more relevant to shaping the 21 st century global securityenvironment. These recommendations provided a framework for Army transformation to become amore transportable, agile, maneuverable force with more firepower, technology, and logistical sustainabilitythan the forces that then existed. The DoD and Army, informed by experiences in Afghanistanand Iraq, revised and submitted the QDR to Congress in 2006. The recommendations continue toemphasize the need for the transformation of US ground forces. The recommendations put forth in theQDR follow two major DoD imperatives. These imperatives include:• Continuing to reorient the DoD’s capabilities and forces to be more agile in world conflicts, suchas the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while preparing for broader asymmetric threats from unconventionalenemies to hedge against uncertainty over the next 20 years.February 2008 1-4 2/25th SBCT Final EIS