Forging an American Grand Strategy: Securing a Path Through a Complex Future.

摘要

On November 8-9, 2011, the National Defense University held a symposium entitled Forging an American Grand Strategy: Securing a Path Through a Complex Future, at Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, DC. This book represents a compilation of several papers delivered at that conference. The topics discussed are relevant to the audiences of the Strategic Studies Institute, and the U.S. Army in general, students, faculty, developers of strategy, and policymakers. Joint professional military education requires the teaching of grand strategy and the assistance such a strategy makes to the development and articulation of the National Security Strategy. This is the focus of much of the curriculum at all the war colleges within the Pentagon. The conference began a conversation that needs to continue because the Nation is struggling with where we are going and how we need to get there. What is the country s grand strategy. Do we need one. If one does not exist, then in a world of complexity and globalization, what is the context that we will use to make decisions in the absence of a grand strategy that guides. How can the Nation plan in a proactive sense to be ready for the future, let alone shape one, without such a framework. The papers presented at this conference represent a sampling of the diversity of opinions on this topic. We hope that it will give the reader some issues to consider.