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Annual Report to the President and the Congress.Over the past year America's armed forces continued to protect and advance the nation's interests throughout the world. Our accomplishments demonstrate that the U.S. military is strong, ready, and highly capable of meeting America's security needs. This Annual Defense Report details how the Department of Defense built its capabilities and is working to maintain them into the future. We have organized our task around three objectives. First, we want to prevent the reemergence of a post-Cold War nuclear threat by helping Russia and the other nuclear states of the former Soviet Union dismantle their nuclear weapons arsenals, and by developing effective means to counter the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world. Second, we want to continue to manage the post-Cold War drawdown of our armed forces efficiently and effectively. We have carried out this drawdown while protecting the quality and morale of America's armed forces and sustaining the high readiness needed to ensure U.S. security. This is a historic accomplishment. Third, we want to be smart, deliberate, and clear on how America will use force or the threat of force effectively in this complex world. (MM)
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Integrating Social Sciences and IntelligenceArmy leaders recognize the importance of sociocultural dynamics in Iraq and Afghanistan but are continually facing challenges on how to prepare soldiers for these dilemmas. In 2003, the Pentagon began the Human Terrain System project in hopes of meeting the military's local cultural and ethnographic intelligence needs. Understanding culture in Iraq and Afghanistan is instrumental for the military. With the proper understanding, the military is able to influence the population through nonlethal means by promoting stability, peace, and economic and social development. The purpose of this paper is to highlight a solution to the Army's increasing need for accurate sociocultural intelligence among junior officers and the enlisted ranks by requiring anthropology and sociology training in basic courses.
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Defense Attache Saigon: RVNAF Quarterly Assessment, 1st Quarter FY 74.This is the second DAO quarterly assessment of RVNAF and is a result of the combined efforts of RVNAF, DAO-Saigon. US observers state that while the RVNAF is improving, so is the enemy, especially in the areas of construction of roads, pipelines; revamping of airfields; input of weapons and stockpiles are better equipped and positioned than before. Manpower for a major country-wide offensive in central/southern Vietnam is the only element the enemy lacks. This assessment reports that presently the RVNAF is capable of a stubborn defense of the territory they control against a limited enemy offensive, but it is doubtful that RVNAF could defend successfully against a major offensive without US airpower. A struggle is developing for control of the rice crop. The high price of rice, caused by increasing inflation, has had a serious impact on RVNAF morale. This has led to theft and pilferage by RVNAF troops from the GVN population resulting in anti-government attitude in some geographical areas. Lack of adequately qualified middle level leaders and managers continues to be a problem. It is concluded that the rate of RVNAF improvement appears to be impeded by inflation, corruption and poor management, and that for the moment RVNAF game-plan seems to be to continue to maintain the status quo brought about by the Ceasefire.