A National Security Strategy for a New Century: A Blueprint for Indiscriminate and Ineffectual Meddling in the Political Affairs of Other Nations

Abstract

The Clinton Administration's May 1997 monograph A National Security Strategy for a New Century was clearly the product of a committee A good strategy should be broad and inclusive and should reflect a consensus among key constituencies But the Clinton strategy pays such extravagant homage to these virtues that it sacrifices two more crucial qualities of a good national security strategy - coherence and prioritazation And nowhere are these critical lapses more apparent than in the realm of promoting democracy And it is in the pursuit of the democracy goal that this strategy fails the most basic test of all to provide a plan for applying resources to achieve clear objectives.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 12, 1997
Accession Number
ADA441458

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  • National War College

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Rights
  • Democracy
  • Federal Budgets
  • Foreign Aid
  • Governments
  • Human Rights
  • Law
  • Local Governments
  • National Security
  • Physical Security
  • Public Diplomacy
  • Security
  • War Colleges

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