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QDR, Other Agency Reviews Contribute To National Security Strategy Overhaul

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Friday, August 7th, 2009

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By Marina Malenic As the Pentagon continues its in-depth examination of programs and strategy known as the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), several U.S. agencies are conducting parallel reviews of their own organizations that will all feed into a reformulation of national security strategy, a top Defense Department official said yesterday. "This QDR is highly inclusive in nature more so than any of the predecessor QDRs," Amanda Dory, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy, told Defense Daily yesterday. "It's…

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