National Security Strategy: Engagement or Pivotal States
Abstract
"Like Gulliver in Lilliput, the United States risks being tied down by a thousand threads Walter Mead thus concisely summarizes, I think, the challenges facing the United States in adopting a national security strategy adequate to the task of taking it into the next century It is in those "thousand threads" that I find the basic flaw of President Clinton's policy of engagement, and why I will argue that the idea of pivotal states, as proposed by Chase, Hill, and Kennedy,2 is the preferred organizing concept for U S national security strategy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA441487
Entities
People
- Pamela S. Mitchell
Organizations
- National War College