TY  - BOOK
AU  - Worley,D.Robert
TI  - Orchestrating the instruments of power: a critical examination of the U.S. national security system 
SN  - 9781612347547
AV  - UA23 .W7766 2015eb
U1  - 355/.033073 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
KW  - National security
KW  - United States
KW  - Strategic planning
KW  - Strategic forces
KW  - Planification stratégique
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Forces stratégiques
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - National
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - International Security
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Military
KW  - Other
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Military Science
KW  - Security (National & International)
KW  - Military policy
KW  - fast
KW  - Military readiness
KW  - Strategic aspects of individual places
KW  - Defenses
KW  - Strategic aspects
KW  - Défense nationale
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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"--; "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"--
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