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Orchestrating the instruments of power : a critical examination of the U.S. national security system

There is increasing evidence that the US national security apparatus, designed for a decades-long great power conflict, is ill-suited to the needs of the twenty-first century and that the burden has largely fallen to a military designed for other purposes. Military forces for the Cold War were designed to deter, and if necessary defeat, the military forces of an opposing great power alliance. Rather than the clash of titans -- the militaries of major power alliances colliding on the field of battle -- today's forces are tasked to conduct what the Bush administration called capacity building, the Clinton administration called nation-building, the British called operations in support of civil authorities, and the Marine Corps called small wars. This class of intervention requires a deft employment of all instruments of power, not the military instrument in relative isolation. In this book, the author presents the theories underlying choices in grand strategy, the instruments of power spread across the departments and agencies of government, the mechanisms for orchestrating the instruments, the major reforms proposed, and the political instabilities that make the reforms either necessary or unwise.

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