The national security strategy

This study by Don M. Snider provides an insider's account of the national security strategy formulation process as experienced at the National Security Council.

It explains how the Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act requires the President to submit an annual National Security Strategy report, intended to clarify strategic vision and resource needs for Congress.

Snider highlights that strategy formulation is not a purely rational or systemic process but an intensely political one involving bargaining and compromise among key personalities.

The book offers insight into the complexities behind the creation of U.S.

grand strategy and the political dynamics shaping it.