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SECDEFf’s question “Is the DoD changing fast enough to meet the new 21st Century security environment?” is a leadership tool to keep the military leaning forward and thinking outside of the box. Without this constant prodding, the organizational lethargy that is DoD would quickly resort back to legacy thinking. The individual transformation roadmaps being pursued by each service have the right combination of core competency, evolutionary capability and risk. One cannot just snap one’s fingers and have a transformed force. There are too many uncertainties in the future security environment and the threat and the accompanying vulnerabilities and challenges for there to be a clear roadmap to the transformed force. One would not petition to transform a force to face a snapshot of today’s threat any more than one would petition a transformed force to face a guesstimate of the unknown threat. Either extreme poses too great a risk. This short piece does not design the next forces but will outline a force planning construct which maintains core competencies to address known (more assumed) threats and challenges while hedging evolutionarily toward the unknown (less assumed) threats. This force would maintain the capabil