Steps Toward Implementing a Solution

Subsequent chapters of this report present general and specific recommendations in a variety of topical areas. The committee s purpose in the remainder of this chapter is to elaborate three basic principles upon which the recommendations of this report are built. 

To focus its response strategies effectively, the Navy should emphasize these three key principles  

12Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. 2001. Report of the Defense Science Board/Threat Reduction Advisory Committee Task Force on Biological Defense, Washington, D.C., June, pp. 74-78. 

13DOD has identified Libya, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, India, China, North Korea, and Russia as countries of concern with respect to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons capability. See Office of the Secretary of Defense. 2001. Proliferation Threat and Response, 3rd ed., Washington, D.C., January. Available online at http //www.defenselink.mil/pubs/ptr20010110.pdf . 

Recognize that chemical weapons and biological weapons constitute different threats. Each has a set of unique requirements for achieving an acceptable defensive posture. 

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