
A panel of former Pentagon officials on Tuesday proposed major overhauls to the Defense Department’s major strategy document, the Quadrennial Defense Review, including classifying at least a portion of it.Congress in 1996 mandated that the Pentagon release a study that describes near-term threats, the budget outlook and modernization and force structure plans. However, the resulting Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), which is published every four years, has become a toothless, uncontroversial document that is too broad to help the defense secretary…