Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy: An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems

by Air University Press, Dennis M. Drew, Donald M. Snow

This new work defines national security strategy, its objectives, the problems it confronts, and the influences that constrain and facilitate its development and implementation in a post–Cold War, post–9/11 environment. The authors note that making and implementing national strategy centers on risk management and present a model for assessing strategic risks and the process for allocating limited resources to reduce them. The major threats facing the United States now come from its unique status as “the sole remaining superpower” against which no nation-state or other entity can hope to compete through conventional means. The alternative is what is now called asymmetrical or fourth generation warfare. Drew and Snow discuss all these factors in detail and bring them together by examining the continuing problems of making strategy in a changed and changing world.

290 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 8, 2019

Reviews

[Eisa ALSHAMSI · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read for Strategic Planners in the National Security domain

It gives an idea about the meaning of strategy and how to strategically plans within the National Security domain. Good as a reference and as tutorial