The National Security Strategy: Documenting Strategic Vision
Abstract
This study is the author's account of the strategy formulation process as viewed from the White House. The Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act requires the President to submit an annual report on the National Security Strategy. In theory, a formal presentation of grand strategy was intended to lend coherence to the budgeting process; a clear statement of interests, objectives, and concepts for achieving them gave Congress a clear idea of the resources required to support the President's strategy. The problem with such documents is that they often create the false impression that strategy formulation is a rational and systemic process. In fact, strategy formulation both within the executive branch and Congress is an intensely political process from which national strategy emerges after protracted bargaining and compromise.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 24, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA249318
Entities
People
- Don M. Snider
Organizations
- United States Army War College