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Drew, Dennis Marvin was born on May 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Harry and Ione Gould (Cronenburgh) Drew.
(This new work defines national security strategy, its obj...)
This new work defines national security strategy, its objectives, the problems it confronts, and the influences that constrain and facilitate its development and implementation in a post-Cold War, post-9/11 environment. The authors note that making and implementing national strategy centers on risk management and present a model for assessing strategic risks and the process for allocating limited resources to reduce them. The major threats facing the United States now come from its unique status as "the sole remaining superpower" against which no nation-state or other entity can hope to compete through conventional means. The alternative is what is now called asymmetrical or fourth generation warfare. Drew and Snow discuss all these factors in detail and bring them together by examining the continuing problems of making strategy in a changed and changing world. Originally published in 2006.
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National security strategy is a vast subject involving a daunting array of interrelated sublements woven in intricate, sometimes vague, and ever-changing patterns. Its processes are often irregular and confusing and are always based on difficult decisions laden with serious risks. In short, it is, at the same time, a subject of overwhelming importance to the fate of the United States and civilization itself. The authors have done a considerable service by drawing together many of the diverse threads of national security into a coherent whole. They consider political and military strategy elements as part of a larger decision making process influenced by economic, technological, cultural and historical factors. Air University Press. United States Air Force.
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This book is about national security strategy: what it is, what its objectives are, what problems it seeks to solve or at least manage, and what kinds of influences constrain and create opportunities for the development and implementation of strategies. The heart of the problem with which national security strategy deals is the series of threats—normally military, but increasingly semi- or nonmilitary in character—that the country must confront and somehow overcome or contain. When the original version of this book1 was published in 1988, the set of threats facing the United States was reasonably static—those problems associated with the Cold War confrontation with a communist world led by the Soviet Union—even if there were signs of change on the horizon. In the ensuing decade and a half, that configuration of problems largely dissolved, along with the concrete parameters within which we operated. In its place is a much more diffuse, shifting, and controversial set of problems that is simultaneously simple, compelling, and arguable. Making strategy is no longer a simple, straightforward process, if it ever were. The making and implementation of strategy at the national level is largely an exercise in risk management and risk reduction. Risk, at that level, is the difference between the threats posed to our security by our adversaries and our capabilities to counter or negate those threats. Assessing risk and resolving it has two primary dimensions. The first is the assessment of risk itself: what conditions represent threats to our security, and how serious are those threats relative to one another and to our safety? The answers to these questions are not mechanical and obvious but are the result of subjective human assessments based on different political and philosophical judgments about the world and our place in it. The other dimension is the adequacy of resources to counter the threats that we identify. In circumstances of plenty, where there are adequate resources (manpower, materiel, perceived will, etc.) to counter all threats, this is not a problem. In the real world, each of these dimensions presents a real set of issues, which we must acknowledge up front.
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Drew, Dennis Marvin was born on May 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Harry and Ione Gould (Cronenburgh) Drew.
Bachelor in History, Willamette University, 1964. Master of Science, University Wyoming, 1972. Master of Arts in History, University Alabama, 1985.
Commissioned United States Air Force, 1964, advanced through grades to colonel, 1985. Served in Vietnam and Thailand, 1966-1967. Staff officer Strategic Air Command Headquarters, Omaha, 1974-1977.
Member faculty Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 1977-1982. Director, professor military strategy and air power doctrine. Airpower Research Institute-Air University, since 1983.
Fellow Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society.
(This book is about national security strategy: what it is...)
(This new work defines national security strategy, its obj...)
(National security strategy is a vast subject involving a ...)
(This book was digitized and reprinted from the collection...)
Member Air Force Association, Air Force History Foundation, American Military Institute, Delta Tau Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta, Pi Gamma Mu, Sigma Chi.
Married Susan Carol Merrill, September 1, 1962. Children: Dennis Marvin Junior, Kirsten.