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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797113503321

Autore

Worley D. Robert (Duane Robert), <1949->

Titolo

Orchestrating the instruments of power : a critical examination of the U.S. national security system / / D. Robert Worley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Herndon, Virginia] : , : Potomac Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61234-752-5

1-61234-754-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Classificazione

POL030000POL012000

Disciplina

355/.033073

Soggetti

National security - United States

Strategic planning - United States

Strategic forces - United States

United States Defenses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Foundational Concepts and Principles -- 1. A Primer on Security Concepts -- 2. War and American Democracy -- 3. War Powers -- Part 2. National Security Strategies -- 4. Grand Strategy -- 5. Cold War Strategies -- 6. Post-Cold War Strategies -- Part 3. National Security Apparatus -- 7. Instruments of Power -- 8. Mechanisms of Power -- 9. National Security Council -- Part 4. National Security Reform -- 10. Major Reform Proposals -- 11. Strategy First.

Sommario/riassunto

"National security, a topic routinely discussed behind closed doors by Washington's political scientists and policy makers, is believed to be an insider's game. All too often this highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the grasp--and interest--of the American public. Author D. Robert Worley disagrees. The U.S. national security system, designed after World War II and institutionalized through a decades-long power conflict with the Soviet Union, is inadequate for the needs of the twenty-first century, and while a general consensus has emerged that the system must be transformed, a clear and direct route for a new national security strategy proves elusive. Furnishing the tools to assist in future national security



reforms, Orchestrating the Instruments of Power articulates and synthesizes the concepts of America's economic, political, and military instruments of power"--

"Orchestrating the Instruments of Power provides a comprehensive analysis of the existing body of politics and theory scholarship in U.S. national security-making strategy"--