REPORT ON INVOLVEMENT OF ARMED FORCES IN CONTINGENCY AND ONGOING OPERATIONS.

SEC. 1211. REPORT ON INVOLVEMENT OF ARMED FORCES IN CONTINGENCY AND ONGOING OPERATIONS. (a) Report Required.— Not later than January 31, 1999, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives a report on the involvement of the Armed Forces in major contingency operations and major ongoing operations since the end of the Persian Gulf War. The report shall include the following: (1) A discussion of the effects of the involvement of the Armed Forces in those operations on retention of personnel 112 STAT. 2151in the Armed Forces, shown in the aggregate and separately for officers and enlisted personnel. (2) The extent to which the use of combat support and combat service support personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces in those operations has resulted in shortages of Armed Forces personnel and equipment in other regions of the world. (3) The accounts from which funds have been drawn to pay for those operations and the specific programs for which those funds were available until diverted to pay for those operations. (4) For each such operation— “(A) a statement of the vital interests of the United States that are involved in the operation or, if none, the interests of the United States that are involved in the operation and a characterization of those interests; “(B) a statement of what clear and distinct objectives guide the activities of United States forces in the operation; and “(C) a statement of what the President has identified on the basis of those objectives as the date, or the set of conditions, that defines the end of the operation. (b) Form of Report.— The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may also be submitted in a classified form if necessary. (c) Major Operation Defined.— For the purposes of this section, a contingency operation or an ongoing operation is a major contingency operation or a major ongoing operation, respectively, if the operation involves the deployment of more than 500 members of the Armed Forces.