Thinking About Instability

Abstract

Maintaining stability in the face of a rapidly changing world order is a major United States' objective for both the President's National Security Strategy (NSS) and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's National Military Strategy (NMS). On the surface, these documents appear to be consistent and the Chairman's strategy of "flexible and selective engagement" appears to fully support the President's strategy of "engagement and enlargement." However, the converse may not be true. A critical examination of the implications of actually implementing the President's strategy indicates that its pursuit of stability through engagement could actually decrease the flexibility and selectivity of our military response, thus severely limiting our ability to respond when our vital interests are threatened.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA442851

Entities

People

  • Edward Bowen

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Arms Control
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Deterrence
  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Information Operations
  • Instability
  • International Organizations
  • Law
  • Market Economy
  • Military Strategy
  • National Security
  • Regional Security
  • Security
  • Thinking
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Strategic Security Studies