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Security policy is a key factor not only of domestic politics in the U.S., but also of foreign relations and global security. This text sets to explain the process of security policy making in the United States by looking at all the elements that shape it, from institutions and legislation to policymakers themselves and historical precedents.
List of contents
Forward by Ambassador Edwin G. Corr
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part I: A Touch of Theory
Chapter 1. A Practitioners Guide to Realism
Part II: The Practitioners' Textbook
Chapter 2. Legal Authorities
Chapter 3. National Security Organizations
Chapter 4. The National Security Council Process
Chapter 5. Defense Planning Systems
Part III: The Cases
Chapter 6. Panama: National Security Policy from Below
Chapter 7. "I Love it When a Plan Comes Together"
Chapter 8. Adventures in Peace Enforcement: The Somalia Tragedy
Chapter 9. The "Intervasion" of Haiti
Chapter 10. "Some Damned Foolish Thing in the Balkans"
Chapter 11. 9/11 and the Invasion of Afghanistan
Chapter 12. Iraq: Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory and Victory From the Jaws of Defeat
Chapter 13. The Afghanistan Surge: Obama's Finest Hour?
Part IV: Some Conclusions
Chapter 14. How National Security Policy Is Really Made: Lessons From the Cases
Bibliography
About the author
LTC USA (Ret.) John T. Fishel, Lecturer in the College of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma, is Professor Emeritus from the National Defense University. He served 28 years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army both active and reserve and was chief of the Policy and Strategy Division of the Policy, Strategy & Programs Directorate of the U.S. Southern Command, Chief of Research and Assessments of the Small Wars Operations Research Directorate (SWORD), and Deputy Chief of the US Forces Liaison Group.
Summary
Security policy is a key factor not only of domestic politics in the U.S., but also of foreign relations and global security. This text sets to explain the process of security policy making in the United States by looking at all the elements that shape it, from institutions and legislation to policymakers themselves and historical precedents.
