Introduction to National Security Strategy Documents

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Introduction to National Security Strategy
Documents

• TSDM 10
• Dr. Coty Keller

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Strategy Documents in TSDM Course

• Part 1 TSDM Session 10
• National Security Strategy (NSS)
• National Defense Strategy (NDS)
• Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR)
• Presidents new (Jan 2012) Defense Planning
  Guidance
• Part 2- TSDM Session 11
• National Military Strategy (NMS)
• Maritime Strategy
• Part 3 TSDM Sessions 13 14
• QDR in Force Planning
• New (Jan 2012) SecDef budget guidance in Resource
  Allocation Process

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1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act

• Required the President to submit an annual
  national security strategy report to the Congress
  that includes a comprehensive description and
  discussion of
• The worldwide interests, goals and objectives
  of
• the United States
• The foreign policy, worldwide commitments, and
• national defense capabilities necessary to
• implement the strategy
• The short-term and long-term uses of the
  political,
• economic, military, and other elements of
  national
• power
• The adequacy of U.S. capabilities to carry out
  the
• strategy

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Aligned Strategies
Geo-Political/Geo-Economic
U.S. Government
Political-Military

• National Security Strategy
• National Interests, Goals Priorities
• Integrating Instruments of National Power
• National Security Objectives

Department of Defense
Military-Operational

• National DefenseStrategy
• Strategic Objectives
• How We Will Accomplish Objectives
• Implementation Guidelines
• Strategic Risk Mgmt

Armed Forces

• National MilitaryStrategy
• Military Objectives
• Desired Attributes, Functions Capabilities
• Joint Vision for Future Warfighting

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Timing Issues

• In a perfect world the national level strategy
  documents are nested, with all of them providing
  a common thread to integrate and synchronize the
  planning and activities of the Joint Staff,
  combatant commands, Services and combat support
  agencies.
• The thought process, and timing would start with
  the NSS, and flow to the NDS gt NMS gt Maritime
  Strategy. But, the current NDS was written under
  the Bush administration in 2008 while the current
  2010 QDR was published before the latest NSS.
  Consequently, there is some discontinuity among
  the three documents that might warrant some
  consideration.
• This situation (document timing out of sync) is
  not unusual.

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One Time Special Documents

• In January 2012, the President and SecDef signed
  a new Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), with a
  title of Sustaining US Global Leadership
  priorities for the 21st Century.
• Serves as a update to the NSS
• Additional reading for TSDM session 10
• SecDef issued new Budget Guidance in the wake of
  the January 2012 DPG.
• Titled Defense Budget Priorities and Choices
• May be viewed as an update of the QDR which
  outlines force structure, modernization and other
  budget guidance thru 2017. QDR ties resources to
  strategy
• Additional Reading for TSDM Session 13 14
  (Resource Allocation and Force Planning)

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Consolidating Strategic Planning Process
Documents
National Security Strategy (NSS)
National Defense Strategy (NDS)
National Military Strategy (NMS)
Employ the Force
Manage the Force
Develop the Force
Guidance for Development of the Force (GDF) /
(Now DPPG)
Guidance for Employment of the Force (GEF)
Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP)
Strategic Planning Guidance
Transfor-mation Planning Guidance
Global Posture Guidance
Human Capital Strategy
Contingency Planning Guidance
Security Cooperation Guidance
Global Posture Guidance
Science Technology Guidance
Analytic Agenda Guidance
Joint Concepts Experiment. Guidance
Nuclear Weapons Planning Guidance
Global Force Mgmt Guidance
Unified Command Plan
Global Force Mgmt (GFM) Guidance Document
CJCS Risk Assessment
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