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Author Demarest, Heidi B

Title US National Security Reform : Reassessing the National Security Act Of 1947
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages)
Series Routledge Global Security Studies
Routledge global security studies.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Endrosement; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: How should we think about national security reform?; Global threats and the international security environment; Domestic politics; National security institutions; Another perspective on change; Notes; Chapter 1 The durable National Security Act; Strategic revolution, institutional evolution; Organizing for decision and direction; How well has the system worked?; Should we change the system?; Does change always help?
Policy, strategy, and organizationNotes; Chapter 2 Improving strategic assessment in the executive branch: Lessons from the scholarly literature; What is "good" strategic assessment?; Three ways of conceptualizing strategic assessment; Lessons for improving strategic assessment; Challenges and opportunities for improving strategic assessment; Notes; Chapter 3 Bent but not broken?: Inter-branch politics, checks and balances, and the contemporary national security state; Establishing the post-1945 constitutional order; Congressional influence through informal means
Exogenous shocks to the post-1945 systemThree challenges to the system of informal constraints; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4 Contradictions in U.S. security planning for a global environment and a process approach to solving them; Contradiction 1: Preparing for war when the security challenge requires governance; Contradiction 2: Who the U.S. plans to use for operations versus who it actually joins with in its efforts
Contradiction 3: The U.S. has taken promising small steps toward addressing portions of these contradictions but struggles to explain, implement, and evaluate them, or to institutionalize those that workHow might the U.S. move beyond these contradictions?; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5 What have we learned about how presidents organize for national security decision making, 1947-2017?; The cold war decision making of Eisenhower and Kennedy; Ending the Cold War in the Reagan and Bush administrations; Combating terrorism in the Bush (43) and Obama administrations
Initial observations of the Trump presidencyConclusion; Notes; Chapter 6 Toward a smaller White House national security staff: A look at the present in historical perspective; Explanations for staff growth; Epilogue: Beginnings with Trump; Notes; Chapter 7 How we decide what we need: Planning the future force; The origins of contemporary analytic practices; Key developments in PPBS; Shortcomings of PPBS and the implications for a future agenda; Decisions about the most important resource, and creating a "force of the future"; Choosing the mix; Managing the mix; Conclusions; Notes
Summary This collection of essays considers the evolution of American institutions and processes for forming and implementing US national security policy, and offers diverse policy prescriptions for reform to confront an evolving and uncertain security environment. This book will be of much interest to students of US national security, US foreign policy, Cold War studies, public policy and Internationl Relations in general. Twelve renowned scholars and practitioners of US national security policy take up the question of whether the national security institutions we have are the ones we need to confront an uncertain future. Topics include a characterization of future threats to national security, organizational structure and leadership of national security bureaucracies, the role of the US Congress in national security policy making and oversight, and the importance of strategic planning within the national security enterprise. The book concludes with concrete recommendations for policy makers, most of which can be accomplished under the existing and enduring National Security Act
Notes Chapter 8 Global challenges and American grand strategy for the 21st century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject United States. National Security Act of 1947.
SUBJECT National Security Act of 1947 (United States) fast
Subject National security -- United States.
National security -- Law and legislation -- United States
National security -- United States -- Decision making
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- International Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
National security
National security -- Decision making
National security -- Law and legislation
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Borghard, Erica D
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