VICARS and MANAGERS: Organizing for National Security

Abstract

This analysis expresses great skepticism about the prospects for a grand strategy if that term is meant to describe an integrated and comprehensive set of operational goals that would yield long-term continuity in U.S. foreign and national security policy. It is somewhat more optimistic about the chances for a grand strategy defined as a structure and process that would improve the internal consistency and coherence of a given administration's national security policy. This latter, admittedly more modest, perspective leads to an evaluation of alternative ways in which a president might try to organize his national security machinery, and of the various roles the State Department and the NSC staff could play. (EMK)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA228090

Entities

People

  • Arnold Kanter

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Centrifugal Force
  • Congress
  • Consistency
  • Continuity
  • Department Of State
  • Executives
  • Foreign Policy
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Interagency Coordination
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Political Systems
  • Security
  • Security Personnel
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Systems Analysis and Design