Research Catalog

Title

Understanding U.S. strategy : a reader based on the Ninth National Security Affairs Conference, October 8-9, 1982 / cosponsored by the National Defense University and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs ; edited by Terry L. Heyns.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Defense University Press : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. ; Springfield, Va. : National Technical Information Service [distributor], 1983.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Heyns, Terry L.
• National Defense University.
• United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)
• National Security Affairs Conference (9th : 1982 : Washington, D.C.)

Description

xiii, 408 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

The Ninth National Security Affairs Conference, cosponsored by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and the National Defense University, provided a forum in which officials from throughout Government discussed important aspects of U.S. national security with prominent leaders from the private sector. The papers presented to stimulate discussions at the conference, as well as summaries of those discussions, make up this volume. This year's conference, "Evolving Strategies for a Changing World," addressed the problems of devising a coherent U.S. national security strategy to meet the challenges of international turbulence. Five topics were addressed: evolving a national strategy, strategies for Western Europe, strategies for the use of space, comparing U.S. and Soviet strategies, and the U.S. system for developing strategy. Our distinguished authors and panelists raised fundamental strategic issues which will continue to confront U.S. national security policy makers in the years ahead. Because the issues are of abiding concern to scholars and to an informed American public, we have departed somewhat from our "Proceedings" format of past years and have designed this 1982 NSAC report as a reader in national security. We feel it will serve the defense and academic communities even better in this format, while still furnishing an accurate account of the conference events.

Subject

• National security > United States > Congresses
• Strategy > Congresses
• Military policy
• National security
• Strategy
• Sicherheitspolitik
• United States of America
• Strategy
• Sécurité nationale > États-Unis > Congrès
• Stratégie > Congrès
• United States > Military policy > Congresses
• United States
• USA
• États-Unis > Politique militaire > Congrès

Genre/Form

• Government publications
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.
• Kongress.

Note

• S/N 008-020-00960-1
• Item 378-H-1

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction to key issues in national strategy / Lieutenant Colonel Terry L. Heyns -- Keynote address: Evolving strategies for a changing world / Dr. Harold L. Brown -- Evolving a national strategy. Panel summary / Dr. Samuel F. Wells, Colonel Thomas J. Kennedy -- National interests and national strategy: the need for priority / Dr. Donald E. Nuechterlein -- Fragmegrative challenges to national strategy / Dr. James N. Rosenau -- National security strategies for the use of space. Panel summary / Mr. Norman R. Augustine, Lieutenant Colonel Gunter H. Neubert -- The high frontier study: a summary / Lieutenant General Daniel O. Graham -- A bold two-track strategy for space: entering the second quarter-century / Dr. Barry J. Smernoff -- Alternative strategies for the defense of Western Europe. Panel summary / Mr. Phillip A. Karber, Dr. Raymond E. Bell, Jr. -- Developing alternative strategies for the defense of Western Europe: the neglected triad and its implications for long-range theater nuclear forces / Dr. Edward A. Kolodziej -- Alternative strategies for the defense of Western Europe / Newt L. Gingrich, Dr. Albert S. Hanser -- Comparing United States and Soviet national strategies. Panel summary / Dr. Samuel P. Huntington, Mr. John A. Baker -- Assessing Soviet national security strategy / Dr. Dimitri K. Simes -- US strategy for national security / Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. -- Reorganizing the United States system for developing strategy. Panel summary / Dr. Albert C. Pierce, Lieutenant Colonel Louis J. Moses -- Impediments to Department of Defense reorganization / Dr. Archie D. Barrett -- Why the Joint Chiefs of staff must change / General David C. Jones -- The JCS -- how much reform is needed? / General Edward C. Meyer -- Navy, Marines adamantly oppose JCS reforms most others tell congress are long overdue / Deborah M. Kyle, Benjamin F. Schemmer.

LCCN

83600578

OCLC

• ocm10006828
• 10006828
• SCSB-994906

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library