Taking the Next Step: The Committee Defense Review—the “it’s not a separate QDR” examination of defense capabilities and needs launched by the House Armed Services Committee in mid-September has set up six more panels to augment its Threat Panel. The new ones—called “gap” panels—will review the current state of US military forces and future requirements to address the threats identified by the Threat Panel. Read the list of gap panels and their members here.
The Air Force has dispatched an element of its Natural Disaster Recovery Team to Guam in the wake of Super Typhoon Mawar, which has caused widespread damage on the island and at Andersen Air Force Base. The team will assess the damage and put together a recovery cost estimate for…