US strategic preferences in the early twenty-first century

Carol Atkinson

Defense & Security Analysis, 2015, vol. 31, issue 1, 35-43

Abstract: This article investigates how US national security planners have envisioned the emerging strategic environment during the early twenty-first century and evaluates how their perceptions of this strategic environment have changed during these years. This conceptual evolution can be seen in how defense planners define threats, identify defense priorities, and design security strategies. Five key strategic planning documents serve as the basis for this analysis and illustrate significant shifts in how the US government has envisioned its own security requirements as well as the context within which its strategic vision will need to be realized. These planning documents are: (1) Joint Vision 2020 , (2) the Bush Administration's 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States , (3) the Obama Administration's 2010 National Security Strategy , (4) US Strategic Defense Guidance entitled Sustaining US Global Leadership: Priorities for 21-super-st Century Defense , and (5) the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Capstone Concept for Joint Operations: Joint Force 2020 .

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/14751798.2014.995334

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