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11%OFFD. Robert Worley - Orchestrating the Instruments of Power: A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System - 9781612347202 - V9781612347202
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Orchestrating the Instruments of Power: A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System

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Description for Orchestrating the Instruments of Power: A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System Paperback. National security, a topic routinely discussed behind the closed doors of Washington's political scientists and policymakers, is believed to be an insider's game. All too often, such highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the grasp--and interest--of the American public. Author D. Robert Worley disagrees. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLX; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 653.
National security, a topic routinely discussed behind the closed doors of Washington's political scientists and policymakers, is believed to be an insider's game. All too often, such highly specialized knowledge is assumed to place issues beyond the grasp--and interest--of the American public. Author D. Robert Worley disagrees. The US national security system, designed after World War II and institutionalized through a decades-long power conflict with the Soviet Union, is inadequate for the needs of the twenty-first century; and while general consensus for a metamorphosis of the system is no longer in dispute, a clear and direct route for a new ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781612347202
SKU
V9781612347202
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About D. Robert Worley
Robert D Worley has been involved in the study and practice of American national security since 1967. He is a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Washington Center for the Study of American Government and the author of Shaping U.S. Military Forces: Revolution or Relevance in a Post-Cold War World (Praeger, 2006).

Reviews for Orchestrating the Instruments of Power: A Critical Examination of the U.S. National Security System
The problem of integrating all elements of national power to achieve specified goals
the problem of strategy
is rarely treated in comprehensive fashion. Robert Worley's new volume is one of the very few that grapple with this challenge. The book's impressive breadth of treatment and its coherent framework will be of great use to students of U.S. national security strategy. The reader ... Read more

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