National security policy: what is it and how have americans approached it?: National security: the international setting -- Military power and the role of force in the nuclear age -- Traditional american approaches to national security -- The Evolution of American national security policy -- National security policy: actors and processes: Presidential leadership and the executive branch in national security -- The Impact of congress on national security policy -- Intelligence and national security -- The Role of the military in the national security policy process -- Defense planning, budgeting, and management -- The National security decision-making process: putting the pieces together -- Issues of national strategy: Nuclear strategies -- Limited war: conventional and nuclear -- Revolutionary war -- Economic challenges to national security -- Research and development -- International and regional security issues: The Soviet union -- East Asia -- The Middle East -- Sub-saharan Africa -- Latin America -- Approaches to national security for the 1980s: Alliances -- International forces and peace-keeping -- Conflict and arms control -- National security priorities in the 1980s

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