Thinking Different about U.S. National Security

Abstract

This study challenges the enduring assumption of U.S. National Security Strategy that America is uniquely charged to underwrite global security by maintaining military superiority. Since the beginning of the Cold War, the United States' use of military force in pursuit of its vision of global security, the primacy of U.S. core values, and the elimination of rivals has cultivated an environment of compliance and created this era of "persistent conflict." The diminished decisiveness of force and the evolving global context in which war is undertaken are discussed along with the impact of recent studies of suicide terrorism, lasting peace efforts, and cognitive psychology. A new assumption and a derivative framework for U.S. led global security is advanced, one that is based on the causative factors of peace and stability rather than those associated with "persistent conflict."

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 18, 2011
Accession Number
ADA565035

Entities

People

  • Kevin C. Colyer

Organizations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil War
  • Cold War
  • Congress
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • International Security
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

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  • Strategic Security Studies