Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld used to call his one-page, often one-sentence, action memos “snowflakes,” because they fell from above, and each one was different. This month and next, the Pentagon will be hit with a blizzard of new reports, all attempting to identify and quantify threats and outline strategies to counter and defeat them.

Here is your field guide for telling them apart:

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