Us Pentagon War Room

History of the pentagon.

Us pentagon war room. In the sum of all fears 2002 jack ryan played by ben affleck goes to the nmcc and convinces the ddo to get him on the us russian hotline trying to stop an all out nuclear confrontation between the two nuclear powers. Military the phrase the pentagon is also often used as a metonym for the department of defense and its leadership. The pentagon is the headquarters building of the united states department of defense as a symbol of the u s. Strangelove and fail safe both depict the pentagon war room.

The pentagon houses more than 25 000 department of defense employees military civilian and contractors. The secretary of defense and the joint chiefs of staff have their offices in the building. The national defense strategy provides a clear road map for the department of defense to meet the challenges posed by a re emergence of long term strategic competition with china and russia. But really when we talk about the nmcc it isn t just one main war room it is a labyrinth of rooms spread out over a number of levels buried below the pentagon.

The new war room is the center of a multibillion dollar worldwide command andcontrol system being developed by the defense department to keep close track of military forces anywhere in the world. Critical domains in the next war a whiteboard october 2 2020 a realist case for germany to resurrect nato october 1 2020 women in peace and security september 29 2020. The other two facades are known as the helipad and south parking entrances. Located in arlington county virginia across the potomac river from washington d c the building was designed by american architect george bergstrom and built by.

A handful of primary areas are. Except four months ago the designs for that and other sophisticated weapons were stolen. The 1964 films dr. The joint strike fighter is the pentagon s high priced ticket to air superiority for the 21st century.