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2014 QDR Could Be the Last of its Kind, If Some HASC Members Get Their Way

2014 QDR Could Be the Last of its Kind, If Some HASC Members Get Their Way
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee

Amid arguments over whether the Defense Department met its legal requirement in answering key questions in the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), some House Armed Services Committee members wondered aloud during a hearing whether it was even worth requiring a QDR at all. The QDR is meant to be a 20-year look at the security environment, what force structure the military may need, what technologies to invest in, what industrial base capabilities it will need to protect and more. It…

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