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National security doctrines are meaningless without the institutional capabilities to put them into practice, and, in the face of continuing combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the gap between strategic goals and operational reality has seldom loomed larger for the US armed forces. As the Pentagon prepares its 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review, Thomas Donnelly examines in "The Military We Need" how the US military, four years after the September 11 attacks, must transform to meet the challenges of our new strategic environment. Among the challenges Donnelly explores are the military's ability to prosecute smaller wars and counterinsurgencies, the balance of power in East Asia, the progress and prospects of defense transformation, future worldwide basing and force posture requirements, and force size and structure needs.