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8802A
Course Overview
(Composition and Organization)
Part I
Part II
L7: WWII: Pre-war Strategy and Planning L8: WWII: Why the Allies Won L9: National Security Strategy during the Cold War (with Vietnam Case Study) L10: The UN and NATO in PostCold War Era L11: Post-Cold War Contemp. Issues: China L12 Post-Cold War Contemp. Issues: Middle East
L1: Grand Strategy: Theory and Practice L2: National Security Decision Making L3: Economics and Policy L4: Intelligence and Policy L5: Total Force L6: National Strategic Planning
Course Overview
(Composition and Organization) Multimedia
DOCNET Digitized lectures Video interviews Radio-style interview (audio CD included)
Agenda
Strategic Constants and Norms International Relations Theory Instruments/Elements of National Power The Limits of Military Power Strategy as a Concept and a Process National Interests The National Security Strategy (NSS) 2002
Requirements
1. Strategic Environment 2. Means 3. Elements of national power
Requirement 1
The environment
Objective 1. Describe the various characteristics that make up the strategic environment. Objective 2. Explain International Relations (IR) theory and relate it to our understanding of important security issues that shape strategy.
Requirement 2
Objective 3. Describe how national-level strategy and policy incorporates the instruments of national power as a means of exercising power and influence.
Culminating points
Strategic and operational culminating points: Culminating points short of victory:
Requirement 3
Objective 4. Determine how the full dimension of strategy as a concept and as a process relates to the policy, strategy, and military operations relationship.
Key Points
L1: Grand Strategy: Theory and Practice
(continued)
POLICY
Democracy
Strategy Grand
OPERATIONS
National Interests
Vital national interests:
An interest on which the nation is unwilling to compromise An interest over which a nation would go to war
Requirement 4
Objective 5. Discuss how the current U. S. National Security Strategy integrates the various elements of national power to achieve its goals and objectives.
Summary
Agenda
Strategic Constants and Norms International Relations Theory Instruments/Elements of National Power The Limits of Military Power Strategy as a Concept and a Process National Interests The National Security Strategy (NSS) 2002
Points to remember
The Notions of the IR Theories Characteristics of the strategic environment Aspects of the M instrument Themes of the policy and strategy relationship and process Political/policy and Military Objectives NSS 2002 Objectives and Elements