How Nation States Craft National Security Strategy Documents

Author : Alan G. Stolberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Nation-states Craft National Security Strategy Documents written by Alan G. Stolberg and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for security and the institutionalization of that security in national strategy and its associated documents is becoming a significant concern for nations in the 21st century international system. This need requires the development of national-level strategies that are designed with objectives; the attainment of which can ensure that the conditions necessary for security for a given actor in the international system can be met. The intent of this monograph is to explore the actual processes that nation-states employ to craft their national security strategy-related documents. The study aligned individual case studies of nation-states conducting their national strategy document formulation processes. These case studies were selected based upon a determination of two primary factors: 1) the nation-states in question had developed national security strategy documents that involved participation in the drafting process from more than one department or agency from the executive branch of government; and, 2) individual participants that were involved in the actual drafting process would be willing to respond to the questions delineated above, either in person or by written response. In addition, subject to travel resource availability, an effort was made to have as many different regions of the world as possible represented in the review. Ultimately, five countries and their national strategy documents were selected for assessment: Australia, Brazil, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Once the data was gathered, the monograph written so as to compare and contrast the various processes employed by each nation in their strategy document development. The last portion of the analysis evaluates the lessons learned from all five cases and identifies specific lessons that could be applicable to strategy document formulation for any future actor engaged in the process.

Author : Alan G. Stolberg
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304052885
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Nation-States Craft National Security Strategy Documents (Enlarged Edition) written by Alan G. Stolberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for security and the institutionalization of that security in national strategy and its associated documents is becoming a significant concern for nations in the 21st century international system. This need requires the development of national-level strategies that are designed with objectives; the attainment of which can ensure that the conditions necessary for security for a given actor in the international system can be met. The intent of this monograph is to explore the actual processes that nation states employ to craft their national security strategy-related documents. The study aligned individual case studies of nation states conducting their national strategy document formulation processes. These case studies were selected based upon a determination of two primary factors: 1) The nation states in question had developed national security strategy documents that involved participation in the drafting process from more than one department or agency from the executive branch of government...

Author : Alan G. Stolberg
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College
ISBN 13 : 9781584875505
Total Pages : 153 pages
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Download or read book How Nation-States Craft National Security Strategy Documents written by Alan G. Stolberg and published by Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War College. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for security and the institutionalization of that security in national strategy and its associated documents is becoming a significant concern for nations in the 21st century international system. This need requires the development of national-level strategies that are designed with objectives ; the attainment of which can ensure that the conditions necessary for security for a given actor in the international system can be met. The intent of this monograph is to explore the actual processes that nation-states employ to craft their national security strategy-related documents. The study aligned individual case studies of nation-states conducting their national strategy document formulation processes. These case studies were selected based upon a determination of two primary factors: 1) the nation-states in question had developed national security strategy documents that involved participation in the drafting process from more than one department or agency from the executive branch of government ; and, 2) individual participants that were involved in the actual drafting process would be willing to respond to the questions delineated above, either in person or by written response. In addition, subject to travel resource availability, an effort was made to have as many different regions of the world as possible represented in the review. Ultimately, five countries and their national strategy documents were selected for assessment: Australia, Brazil, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Once the data was gathered, the monograph written so as to compare and contrast the various processes employed by each nation in their strategy document development. The last portion of the analysis evaluates the lessons learned from all five cases and identifies specific lessons that could be applicable to strategy document formulation for any future actor engaged in the process.

Author : United States Government Us Army
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781979298773
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.s. Army War College How Nation-states Craft National Security Strategy Documents written by United States Government Us Army and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Army War College How Nation-States Craft National Security Strategy Documents In some manner, shape, or form, every nation state in the international system has a national security strategy or strategies. These strategies are intended to guide the state as it makes its way through the labyrinth of challenges that every nation state faces in the 21st century. The strategy could represent the nation's overall grand strategy or it could be a national security-related strategy for one particular issue, like force structure development for the armed forces. Strategy making is an art; not a science. Sometimes these strategies work and sometimes they do not. Some are effective and efficient as desired and others are less so. The focus for this assessment is how a nation state can craft the most effective and efficient national security-type strategy possible. To address these key questions, the national security strategy development processes in this monograph were examined and contrasted in five different nation-states to determine the methodologies they employed. For each case study, members of the government who actually worked on the development of the national strategy document in question were interviewed. These individuals-civil servants, career military officers, and senior political appointees-all had a story to tell about the separate approaches to strategy formulation. In the analysis of the strategy development processes utilized by Australia, Brazil, South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States, it became apparent that there were both similarities and differences in the manner that each nation conducted its strategy formulation. But most important, each one of national strategy development processes was found to contain elements that could have real value for those countries not employing those particular approaches. Australia and the UK were superb in ensuring true whole of government coordination, as well as concurrent application of the government's budget process and the formal administration of a risk assessment for the given strategy. Australia and South Africa did a superb job in bringing civil society into their document formulation processes. Brazil was exceptional in the creation of detailed ways and means critical for strategy implementation. Finally, the U.S. approach included addressing all elements of national power, as well as the identification of potential strategy modifiers if the national strategy was found not to be working in certain areas. Given the complexities of the 21st century in the national security arena, the Strategic Studies Institute believes that assessments like the one you are about to read will be crucial to both practitioners and academics alike to gain greater understanding for the most effective and efficient approaches to national strategy making in the 21st century.

Author : Ginnie Waylon
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781631175008
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafting National Security Strategy Documents written by Ginnie Waylon and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some manner, shape, or form, every nation state in the international system has a national security strategy or strategies. These strategies are intended to guide the state as it makes its way through the labyrinth of challenges that every nation state faces in the 21st century. The strategy could represent the nation's overall grand strategy or it could be a national security-related strategy for one particular issue, like force structure development for the armed forces. This book discusses how nation-states create their own national security strategies, and continues to provide mandates, execution to dates, and issues involved for Congress in national security strategies.

Author : Christopher McNamara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making National Security Strategy written by Christopher McNamara and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new National Security Strategy is warranted, a strategy that addresses this watershed era of unprecedented and revolutionary change. This paper argues that, at a time when we need it most, our government's executive branch cannot produce a relevant, coherent, forceful National Security Strategy. The primary reason for this failure is our reliance on a strategy-development process appropriate to and comfortable with incremental change, but ill suited to deal with the complete transformation of world order. Our focus is on process. We contend that the "what" of a National Security Strategy, its substance, is in large measure determined by the "how," the process by which it is developed. The process that produced the National Security Strategy of the United States, August 1991, the current official strategy document, failed to produce strategy. If left to the current process and participants, future NSS documents will remain unsatisfactory. We propose on Office of National Strategy within the Executive Office of the President. Two groups would form the office. An ad hoc group of cabinet-level capability would meet to work for the President in designing and writing his strategy. This same group would convene at his term mid-point to review the strategy. A small, permanent group would monitor and report on the execution and effectiveness of the strategy. The solution proposed would take the development of National Security Strategy off-line, outside the existing bureaucracy, away from the participants who currently dominate the process. A document written away from the consensus-dependent interagency arena and free from public and congressional scrutiny until developed, would fully represent the President's views, ideals and principles.

Author : Richard Kluger
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781475232486
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in U.S. National Security Strategy, Defense Plans, and Diplomacy written by Richard Kluger and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government has recently issued seven major studies that together put forth a comprehensive blueprint for major global changes in U.S. national security strategy, defense plans, and diplomacy. These seven studies are brought together in this illuminating book, which portrays their individual contents and complex interrelationships and evaluates their strengths and shortfalls. It argues that while these studies are well-written, cogently argued, and articulate many valuable innovations for the Department of Defense, Department of State, and other government agencies, all of them leave lingering, controversial issues that require further thinking and analysis as future U.S. national security policy evolves in a changing and dangerous world. For all readers, this book offers a quick, readable way to grasp and critique the many changes now sweeping over the new U.S. approach to global security affairs.

Author : Stephen J. Cimbala
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Security Strategy written by Stephen J. Cimbala and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1984 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable collection of essays examines national security strategy from amny points of view.

Author : United States. Executive Office of the President
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A National Security Strategy for a New Century written by United States. Executive Office of the President and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard L. Kluger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781304084767
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Directions in U.S. National Security Strategy, Defense Plans, and Diplomacy written by Richard L. Kluger and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where are U.S. national security strategy, defense plans, and diplomacy headed in the coming years? One answer to this important question comes from seven official studies issued in 2010. These studies provide an impressive welter of goals and activities, and they announce major innovations in U.S. policies. But they are hard to absorb in a single setting, and their interrelationships can be hard to determine unless viewed together. To help readers better understand them, this book assembles them into a single exposition, thereby providing "one stop shopping." It describes them individually, shows how they blend together, and evaluates their strengths and limitations.