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Understanding Risk and Redefining Readiness

War on the Rocks

CHAPTER

The Cost of a Regional Contingency

The secretary of defense is making decisions based on how he sees risk. Our job is to give him as much clarity of what that risk is with as much emotion taken out of the picture and much bias removed. If we knew when the next conflict was going to happen and where, this would be an easy, much easier problem to solve, but we don't.

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