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Annual Report to the President and the Congress, commonly referred to as the Annual Defense Report, details how the Department of Defense built its capabilities and is working to maintain them in the future. In addition to fulfilling a statutory requirement, specifically U.S.C. Title 10, the Secretary of Defense's Annual Defense Report is widely distributed and serves as a basic reference document for those interested in national defense issues and programs.

Department of Defense personnel and procurement statistics.

The largest central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today.

Documents issued by the joint chiefs of staff. Presents fundamental principles that guide the employment of US military forces in coordinated and integrated action toward a common objective. It promotes a common perspective from which to plan, train, and conduct military operations. Provides distilled insights and wisdom gained from employing the military instrument of national power in operations to achieve national objectives.

MERLN (the Military Education Research Library Network) is a comprehensive website devoted to international military education outreach. It represents a consortium of military education research libraries that work together to provide access to a variety of unique electronic resources for the use of researchers and scholars.

Information on military casualties.

Military expenditures by the United States before 2001.

Records of U.S. Military Casualties, Missing in Action, and Prisoners of War from the Era of the Vietnam War.

Includes World War II, Korean and Vietnam wars.