Orchestrating the instruments of power : a critical examination of the U.S. national security system /
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....
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Lincoln :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.