Defense planners must include all military missions, not just combat requirements, when sizing its force and budget, a new report from the American Enterprise Institute said.“No longer should combat requirements be considered adequate to achieve both war and peacetime operations,” wrote Mackenzie Eaglen in the March 2015 report, U.S. Force Sizing for Both War and Peace. Eaglen is resident fellow at the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at AEI.The post-Cold War period relied on a force-sizing construct of a…
