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BY UNITED STATES TROOPS AND ... COMBAT REINFORCEMENT. (a) It is the policy of the United States to encourage and provide our military forces with the resources and opportunities to execute their mission to deter, prevent, defend, and restore stability, and to preserve peace, security, and order in a friendly and democratic society. Therefore, it is the policy of the United States to provide adequate and responsive defense resources to the armed forces and defense-related activities of the armed forces including the military missions of the Armed Forces, the Department of Defense, the military departments, and the U.S. combatant commands. Additionally, it is the policy of the United States to promote the full range of joint and residual forces that are essential to our military strength, preparedness, and national security. The United States maintains its military forces in the context of joint and residual forces to provide for a strong, cooperative, balanced, and agile military. The United States also maintains several military activities in which it maintains military forces: (1) training missions, (2) counter-drug activities, (3) humanitarian assistance, and (4) training exercises that have a foreign impact. (b) As part of the implementation of the policy set forth in this joint statement, the Department of Defense (DOD) will review the number of permanent and temporary forces required to execute national security missions and address any shortfalls that result in a gap of any length of time between current staffing levels and the missions for which the forces are employed. DOD will undertake this review by mid-September 2009. Such review will result in recommendations for the Secretary of Defense and the military departments with respect to the number of non-temporary forces needed to ensure the continued success of national security missions during the foreseeable future (i.e., to address the gaps identified in the review) and for the staffing, training and other resources necessary to support the force structures necessary to achieve sustained high levels of capability to execute the missions for which this force posture is being reviewed. It will also provide guidance on the types of forces or staffing levels necessary to execute current mission requirements, as well as recommendations on new requirements for the future. These recommendations will be coordinated with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Director of the Agency for International Development. In addition, DOD will continue to evaluate the requirements for and the personnel requirements of U.S. service members worldwide.