FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 6, 2006

The Pentagon has just released the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the crucial strategy document that seeks to reshape the American way of war. From the continuing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan to the rise of China, the QDR examines a range of threats and challenges confronting U.S. defense policy and proposes a raft of changes in the ways the military will work for years to come.

Among the AEI scholars available to comment on the new QDR are:

• Thomas Donnelly, AEI resident fellow
• A former policy director and professional staff member for the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on National Security (now the Committee on Armed Services), Donnelly is the author of AEI’s National Security Outlook, and of The Military We Need: The Defense Requirements of the Bush Doctrine (AEI Press, 2005).
• Recent publications:
• Kill the QDR
• QDR's Crucial Question
• Quadrennial Defense Review Time
• Tel: (202) 862-5875; e-mail: TDonnelly@aei.org; asst: (202) 862-5933.
  
• Frederick W. Kagan, AEI resident scholar
• A military historian who has taught at West Point, AEI resident scholar Frederick Kagan specializes in defense issues and the American military.
• Recent publications:
• The War against Reserves
• Tel: (202) 862-5925; e-mail: FKagan@aei.org; asst: (202) 862-5933.
  
• Gary J. Schmitt, AEI resident scholar and director of AEI’s Program on Advanced Strategic Studies
• Schmitt's work focuses on long-term strategic issues that will affect America's security at home and its ability to lead abroad.
• Tel: (202) 862-5831; e-mail: GSchmitt@aei.org; asst: (202) 862-7188.
• Dan Blumenthal, AEI resident fellow
• Formerly a senior director for China and Taiwan in the Secretary of Defense’s Office of International Security Affairs, Blumenthal’s research at AEI focuses on Asia.
• Tel: (202) 862-5861; e-mail: DBlumenthal@aei.org; asst: (202) 862-7176.

For media inquiries, please contact Véronique Rodman, at vrodman@aei.org or (202) 862-4870.