The U.S. Department of Defense's Planning Process
Mazarr, Michael J / Best, Katharina Ley / Laird, Burgess
This report-Phase Two of a three-phase project-describes the current defense planning process used by the U.S. Department of Defense, with a focus on how scenarios are developed and employed to support defense planning. It examines and critiques how scenarios are used in current planning processes, based on an assessment of unclassified documents and dialogues with current and former participants in the process.