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Disruptive challenges are those posed by competitors employing breakthrough technology that might counter or negate our
current advantages in key operational domains. In doing so, competitors seek to provide new military options that offset our
advantages in niche areas and threaten our ability to operate from the strategic commons-space, international waters and
airspace, and cyberspace. Such developments will afford opponents only temporary advantage. In a few instances, however,
the United States could confront technological breakthroughs that would fundamentally alter our approach to security.
These might include, but are not limited to, breakthroughs in biotechnology, cyber operations, space, directed energy, and
other emerging fields. Although such developments are unpredictable, we must be attentive to the consequences that such
possibilities hold, and plan and invest accordingly.
The goal of our transformation is to contend effectively with these challenges and channel future security competition in
ways favorable to the United States and its international partners. We accomplish this by assuring our allies and friends-
demonstrating our resolve to fulfill defense commitments and protect common interests; dissuading potential adversaries
from adopting threatening capabilities and ambitions; and deterring aggression and coercion by maintaining capable and
rapidly deployable military forces. Finally, at the direction of the President, we will defeat adversaries at the time, place, and
in the manner of our choosing-setting the conditions for future security.
THE UNCLASSIFIED FORCE STRUCTURE PLAN
The following table shows the programmed force structure, manning, and funding for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and
Air Force for Fiscal Years 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011. When reviewing this plan, it should be noted that it depicts only
Service force units; that is, not all of the force structure is identified. For example, the unclassified version does not account
for Army non-divisional units including its associated assets like aviation and special operations; Navy non-carrier-based
aircraft and construction battalions; and Air Force airlift, special operation, tankers, and missiles.
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