US Pentagon to Abandon Two-war Strategy

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is set to unveil sweeping changes in US military strategy, including the formal abandonment of the two-major-war measure that has been used to determine the size of the military for a decade, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Rumsfeld is scheduled to meet with President George W. Bush this week to seek final approval for the new strategy, said to involve some of the biggest changes in the U.S. military in a decade, the paper said.

Rumsfeld has been working on the reorganization plan since the Bush administration took office in January and the final version will be the blueprint for budget proposals outlining defense spending for the next several years.

The Post quoted unidentified Pentagon officials as saying that a two-week campaign on defense issues raised by the new plan will culminate with a May 25 address by Bush at the Naval Academy where he will lay out what one called "the vision of where we need to go as we move into the 21st century."

Putting aside the two-war strategy is more a matter of determining the overall size of the military than planning for specific conflicts, the paper said, noting that for about 10 years the military has used the possibility of having to fight wars in two places at the same time to determine the minimum number of troops and weapons needed.

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