Volume 112 of Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents, Discerning President Obama's National Defense Strategy, makes available documents from the first fifteen months of the Obama administration that provide insights into its developing national defense strategy. Included are documents specifically relating to the U.S. Department of Defense and the nation's armed forces. Included is the February 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Report of the Department of Defense, one of the most significant documents providing insight into the defense component of national security. General Editor Douglas Lovelace, an expert in U.S. military matters, elucidates the complexities of military spending and of counter-insurgency tactics.

• PREFACE


• INTRODUCTION


• A. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE'S STRATEGY AND PROGRAMS REVIEWS


• Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.


• DOCUMENT NO. 1: Quadrennial Defense Review Report, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense, February 1, 2010


• DOCUMENT NO. 2: United States Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Overview, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller), Department of Defense, February 2010


• B. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY STRATEGY AND PROGRAM REVIEW


• Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.


• DOCUMENT NO. 3: Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Report: A Strategic Framework for a Secure Homeland, Janet Napolitano, United States Department of Homeland Security, February 2010


• DOCUMENT NO. 4: Use of Physical Security Performance Measures Al Qaeda in Iraq: Assessment and Outside Links, The Interagency Security Committee, United States Department of Homeland Security, 2009


• C. EMERGING U.S. ARMED FORCES STRATEGIES


• Commentary by Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr., Esq.


• DOCUMENT NO. 5: Capstone Concept for Joint Operations, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Washington, D.C., 15 January 2009


• DOCUMENT NO. 6: 2010 Joint Operating Environment, United States Joint Forces Command, General J.N. Mattis, Norfolk, VA, February 18, 2010


• DOCUMENT NO. 7: Speech given by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael G. Mullen at Kansas State University, Manhattan Kansas, March 3, 2010


• DOCUMENT NO. 8: 2010 The Army Capstone Concept (ACC), subtitled Operating Under Conditions of Uncertainty and Complexity in an Era of Persistent Conflict, Department of the Army Training and Doctrine Command, General Martin E. Dempsey, Fort Monroe, VA, 21 December 2009


• SUBJECT INDEX

Doug Lovelace is the Director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College. Earlier in his military career, he worked on national security directives. He holds an MBA degree from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a JD from Widener School of Law.
Kristen E Boon is Director of International Programs at Seton Hall University School of Law. Her writings have appeared in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law and the New York University Journal of International Law. A former clerk to the Supreme Court of Canada's Justice Ian Binnie, she holds an M.A. in Political Science from McGill University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Aziz Huq teaches at the University of Chicago Law School and was recently Director of the Liberty and National Security Project at NYU Law School's Brennan Center. He previously clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and served as Senior Consultant Analyst for the International Crisis Group.