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Edition: Second Printing, December 1983 Label: National Defense University Press Manufacturer: National Defense University Press Number Of Pages: 214 Publication Date: 1983 Publisher: National Defense University Press Studio: National Defense University Press Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: "There are increasingly complex challenges to free world values and institutions and, thus, to US national security interests and objectives. To be optimally prepared to meet these challenges rationally, the United States must have a coherent national security planning process that reflects a future-oriented concept of US interests and objectives, permitting us to orchestrate all elements of the nation's power in behalf of those objectives. These realities have been recognized by our senior military leader, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General David C. Jones, USAF. It was in response to the expressed concerns of General Jones that the National Security Affairs Institute of this University cosponsored a series of seminars with the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy during the fall and winter of 1980-81. The seminar participants were distinguished members of government, the military, academe, and other civilian sectors, with relevant expertise in the areas of long-range national security policy and strategy development. They conducted a farranging dialogue on the multiple aspects of planning US security and specifically examined the complex institutional and structural constraints on long-range planning while they sought to identify principles that should underlie the security planning process. It was agreed that the diffusion of power and responsibility designed into our political system is reflected in the US security planning process. No one governmental institution monopolizes this process; instead, it is characterized by many actors in a plurality of organizations having diverse, sometimes conflicting, priorities on security issues. If there is no locus for managing the priority setting of these actors, and for integrating diverse priorities into a coherent, long-range strategic framework, the result is ambiguity in policy and strategy and a planning product that..." [from foreword by (signed) John S. Pustay, Lieutenant General, USAF, President] 
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