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Barrick, Nathan D.

For the Common Defense: The Evolution of National Security Strategy-making Institutions and Impact on American Grand Strategy.

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Title/Author:	For the Common Defense: The Evolution of National Security Strategy-making Institutions and Impact on American Grand Strategy.
Author:	Barrick, Nathan D.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019
Description:	320 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: A.
Notes:	Advisor: Woo, Jongseok.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-03A.
Subject:	Political science.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13905055
ISBN:	9781085753883

For the Common Defense: The Evolution of National Security Strategy-making Institutions and Impact on American Grand Strategy.
Barrick, Nathan D.

For the Common Defense: The Evolution of National Security Strategy-making Institutions and Impact on American Grand Strategy. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 320 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Florida, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation applies a Neoclassical Realism model to examine how the evolution of United States (U.S.) national security strategy-making institutions has resulted in a path dependent accrual of autonomy and increasing influence over the formulation of American grand strategy. Once U.S. national security strategy-making institutions were created, their existence inexorably led to increasing autonomy, the creation of new strategy-making institutions, and subtle influence in shaping American grand strategy by preferential focus on a militarized foreign policy. Additionally, the more autonomous these strategy-making institutions have become, the further they have strayed from the Constitutional mandate to create a government which provides for the common defense and the less successful they have been in implementing grand strategy for national security. This dissertation examines this evolution in strategy-making institutions across three grand strategic moments: the end of the Spanish-American War (1898-1911), World War II and the beginnings of the Cold War (1940-1950), and the end of the Cold War (1980-present). Each case study discusses the historical facts of the grand strategic moment’s evolution in strategy-making institutions. These facts indicate durable shifts in autonomy and influence. The increasing autonomy is evidenced by the ability of these national security strategy-making institutions to define their own evolution, despite traditional American strategic culture perceptions about civilian control of the Military. These strategy-making institutions also shaped the formulation of American grand strategy and their evolution has had important transformative effects on American strategic culture and civil-military relations. While, fortunately, the U.S. can rely on ethical military professionalism, and the nation still holds its Military in high regard, this path-dependent process of structural evolution generates concern for the American People’s future and common defense.

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For the Common Defense: The Evolution of National Security Strategy-making Institutions and Impact on American Grand Strategy.
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