The panel will suggest saving money by making deeper cuts in existing forces, in procurement plans and in infrastructure.It will also tell the Pentagon to think more about the military value of space, a pet subject of RMA fans but underplayed by the review.
"So there are some places where a business would find savings where we are not prepared to look".High-tech, high-riskAnother group of vociferous critics of the QDR are fans of the so-called "revolution in military affairs" (RMA).
In the 1980s he predicted a new RMA driven by technologies such as advanced sensors, precision-guided weapons and computer networks.Most Americans have never heard of Mr Marshall, but his ideas have drawn attention far beyond America's shores.
But Mr Marshall is perhaps most noted for his belief that warfare is subject to dramatic change when new technologies combine with doctrinal and operational innovation to create a "revolution in military affairs" (RMA).
In the post-Cold War era, DARPA has played a key role in developing the information technology behind the so-called revolution in military affairs (RMA)—put simply, the substitution of high technology and precision munitions for troops.
In a meeting with The Economist at the Academy, General Chen Zhou, the main author of the four most recent defence white papers, said: "We studied RMA exhaustively.
PLA scholars at the Academy of Military Science in Beijing began learning all they could from American think-tanks about the so-called "revolution in military affairs" (RMA), a change in strategy and weaponry made possible by exponentially greater computer-processing power.
This panel of independent experts will give some weight to the criticisms from the RMA theorists.
