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Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy: An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems - Brossura
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National security strategy in the post–Cold War world has proven to be far more difficult and contentious than in the era of superpowers and their allies facing each other in a nuclear standoff. Today the world is not so neatly divided, and the issues involved seem much more complex and intractable. Serious issues involving nuclear weapons remain and are now accompanied by a host of equally complex issues, some of which involve—or perhaps are driven by—matters of religious faith. The result is that understanding national security strategy and the process that develops that strategy remain subjects of overwhelming importance. The gestation period for this volume has lasted more than a quarter of a century. It began in 1980 when Dennis Drew published “Strategy: Process and Principles” in the Air University Review. The strategy process model described in the article became the organizing scheme for Drew and Donald Snow to produce an in-house textbook designed to introduce students at Air University’s Air Command and Staff College to some of the basic notions of national security strategy. Although Introduction to Strategy was a very rudimentary text, it remained in steady use in both the resident and nonresident curricula until 1988. Over that period, it introduced tens of thousands of midcareer military officers to the vagaries of strategy making. In 1988 Snow and Drew produced Making Strategy—a new, expanded, and more sophisticated version of their original text. The new text remained organized around the strategy process model first published in 1980. Demand for Making Strategy was remarkable considering that although it was written during the Cold War, it was reprinted by Air University Press for the seventh time in 2001. Snow’s and Drew’s newest version has been slightly retitled and almost totally rewritten to reflect radically changed politicalmilitary realities. Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy addresses not only traditional strategy concerns but also the chaotic nature of the post–Cold War world and the stark realities of terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and military conflicts along religious fault lines. Although the authors have changed a great deal in this edition, the original strategy process model, first published in 1980, remains the constant organizing scheme. I have no doubt that Making Twenty-First-Century Strategy, like its predecessors, will have a long, useful, and influential life. The nexus of global terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and militant radical religious beliefs has produced a dangerous and complex conundrum for strategists. The potential for a flawed strategy to bring about dire political, military, economic, and social consequences makes analytical clarity a priority issue. In this volume, Donald Snow and Dennis Drew continue their long tradition of offering a framework for analysis that provides a significant degree of clarity and insight.
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