
A Defense Department official rejected the notion that the Quadrennial Defense Review did not meet its mandatory requirements and therefore should be rewritten, as House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said when the document was released last week. Christine Wormuth, deputy undersecretary of defense for strategy, plans and force development, told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Monday that “we’re very aware of Chairman McKeon’s statement about the QDR” but stand by the…