General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony: Homeland Defense: Preliminary Observations on How Overseas and Domestic Missions Impact DOD Forces.

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Homeland Defense: Preliminary Observations on How Overseas and Domestic Missions Impact DOD Forces.

GAO-03-677T April 29, 2003

The way in which the federal government views the defense of the United States has dramatically changed since September 11, 2001. Consequently, the Department of Defense (DOD) is adjusting its Cold War strategic focus (of defending against massed combat forces) to better encompass defense against the asymmetric threats that small terrorist cells represent to U.S. territory. GAO was asked to review ...