Defense News:
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Review has been completed, according to the department’s No. 2 official. But when it will be released remains unknown.
During a media roundtable Wednesday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan was asked about the status of the review, a broad-spectrum look at America’s missile defense capabilities that is expected to drive investment in the coming years.
“We don’t have the document release. The strategy is done,” Shanahan said. “Don’t worry about the strategy. The strategy’s been done for quite some time.”
During the roundtable, Shanahan referred many times to how the department’s fiscal 2020 budget request, which will be finalized in the next two months, is strategy-based, drawing from the White House’s National Security Strategy as well as the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy and Nuclear Posture Review.
