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socially sanctioned violence to achieve a strategic purpose
War
continuation of politics by other means
idea or set o ideas for employing the instruments of national
Strategy
power in a
synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve theater or
multinational objectives
Clausewitz Trinity Reason (the government), chance (the military), and passion (the
people)
An overarching vision that defines and guides a nation's foreign
policy
Grand Strategy exists at a level above those strategies intended to
secure particular ens and above te use of military
power ALONE to achieve strategic objectives... aims
to secure and advance a nation's long-term,
enduring core interests over time... based on the
national leadership's strategic vision of America's role in the
world
The Character of Warfare what it looks like at any given time
Nature of Warfare constants that remain a part of conflict of opposing wills
regardless of context
NSS National Security Strategy
, CJCS
supports the aims of the NSS and implements the NDS.
National Military Strategy It describes the Armed Forces' plan to achieve military
objectives in the near term and provides a vision for
maintaining a force capable of meeting future challenges
A document approved by the CJCS for distributing and
applying military power to attain NSS and NDS
objectives.
Guidance for Employment of the Force
GEF merges Contingency
Planning Guidance and Security Cooperation Guidance
into one document that provides
comprehensive, near-term planning guidance.
The GEF provides Presidential and SecDef politico-military
GEF guidance.
The President approves the contingency planning guidance
contained in the GEF and approves SecDef's issuance of the GEF.
The GEF is guided by the UCP and NDS and forms the
basis for strategic policy guidance, campaign plans,
and
the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP).
guidance to CCDRs, Service Chiefs, CSA directors,
applicable DOD agencies, DOD field activity directors,
and the CNGB to accomplish tasks and missions
JCSP
based on near-term military capabilities.
The JSCP is signed by the CJCS and implements
campaign, contingency, and posture planning
guidance reflected in the GEF
, signed by the President,
provides national direction to secure the homeland
through a comprehensive framework
National Strategy for
Homeland Security for organizing the efforts of federal, state, local, tribal,
and private organizations whose
primary functions are often unrelated to national security
signed by SecDef,
outlines DOD's
National defense strategy approach to implementing the President's NSS.
set of overarching defense objectives that guide DOD's
security activities and provide direction for the NMS
A document approved by the President of the United
National security strategy States that expresses vision, what the U.S. stands for,
and a sensing of how the instruments of national power
will be arrayed.
1. Reworked the command structure of the United States
military and the joint force
Goldwater-Nichols Act 2. Streamlined the military chain of command- now
runs from President through Secretary of Defense
bypassing the service chiefs
3. The service chiefs were assigned to an advisory
role to the President, NSC, and Secretary of Defense