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U.S. Army War College Guide to Strategy

Edited by Dr. Joseph R. Cerami, Colonel James F. Holcomb Jr..

February 2001

282 Pages

Brief Synopsis

For more than 3 decades, the U.S. Army War College (USAWC) Department of National Security and Strategy has faced the challenge of educating future strategic leaders on the subject of national security, or grand strategy. Fitting at the top of an officer's or government official's career-long professional development program, this challenge has been to design a course on strategy that incorporates its many facets in a short period of time, all within the 1-year, senior service college curriculum. To do this, a conceptual approach has provided the framework to think about strategy formulation. The purpose of this volume is to present the USAWC strategy formulation model to students and practitioners. This book serves as a guide to one method for the formulation, analysis, and study of strategy--an approach which we have found to be useful in providing generations of strategists with the conceptual tools to think systematically, strategically, critically, creatively, and big. Balancing what is described in the chapters as ends, ways, and means remains at the core of the Army War College's approach to national security and military strategy and strategy formulation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
Joseph R. Cerami

2. A Primer in Strategy Development
Robert H. Dorff

3. Ethical Issues in War: An Overview
Martin L. Cook

4. Some Basic Concepts and Approaches to the
Study of International Politics
Robert H. Dorff

5. The Persistence of Credibility: Interests,
Threats and Planning for the Use of American Military Power
David Jablonsky

6. National Interest: From Abstraction to Strategy
Michael G. Roskin

7. Regional Studies and Global Strategy
R. Craig Nation

8. National Power
David Jablonsky

9. National Security and the Interagency Process: Forward into the
21st Century
Gabriel Marcella

10. The National Security Strategy: Documenting Strategic Vision
Don M. Snider and John A. Nagl

11. Why is Strategy Difficult?
David Jablonsky

12. Force Planning and U.S. Defense Policy
John F. Troxell

13. Toward An Understanding of Military Strategy
Arthur F. Lykke, Jr.

14. Strategic Risk
James F. Holcomb, Jr.

15. Strategic Art: The New Discipline for 21st Century Leaders
Richard A. Chilcoat

Appendix I. Guidelines for Strategy

Appendix II. U.S. National Security and Strategy: A Bibliography
Jane Gibish

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