The search for security : a U.S. grand strategy for the twenty-first century
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The search for security : a U.S. grand strategy for the twenty-first century
Praeger, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
One of the most common criticisms of current U.S. security policy is that it lacks an overarching strategy, leading to a tendency to address problems and crises individually and in isolation as they arise. This study provides a broad description of the contemporary global security environment and an examination of U.S. security policy since the end of the Cold War. Traditional threats, such as those associated with major theater war, now coexist with newer nontraditional threats. The authors maintain that a sound strategy must support the ability of a country to hedge and adapt to a highly volatile security landscape. That, in turn, is accomplished through an executive level organizational mechanism to authoritatively integrate and execute a cogent national policy.
Understanding the key concepts of strategy and strategy formation is essential in order to place specific challenges-such as global instability and state failure-in an appropriate strategic context. The contributors outline the conceptual guidance for a relevant strategy to deal with the myriad political, economic, informational, and deterrence threats and challenges generated in today's unstable, chaotic, violent, and ambiguous global security environment. Their conclusions are unequivocal. The United States must come to grips with the fundamentally transformed nature of security challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. To do so requires a significant change in how the country develops its security strategy and how the country is organized to plan and implement that strategy.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Honorable David L. Boren Editors' Preface The Global Security Environment at the Beginning of the 21st Century Vague Threats and Concrete Dangers: The Global Security Environment at the Start of the 21st Century by Richard L. Millett The Current U.S. National Security Strategy and Policy: A Brief Appraisal by Robert H. Dorff Toward a Forward National Security Strategy Managing Globalization: Lessons for Constructing a Strategic Bridge to the Future by Edwin G. Corr The Central Political Challenge in the Global Security Environment: Governance and Legitimacy by Edwin G. Corr and Max G. Manwaring The Major Economic Challenge in the Global Security Environment: Competing in an Interdependent World by Leif Rosenberger The Information Challege in the Global Security Environment by Dennis M. Rempe The Challenge of Deterrence in the Global Security Arena: Thinking About a Peaceful and Prosperous Tomorrow by Edwin G. Corr and Max G.Manwaring Where To From Here? A Grand Strategy for the United States at the Start of the New Millennium: The Broad Outlines by Edwin G. Corr and Max G. Manwaring Strategy, Grand Strategy, and the Search for Security by Robert H. Dorff Index
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