This course helps cadets to improve their ability to analyze the national security choices of the United States. An underlying premise is that it is useful to think strategically about national security. To think strategically means to keep in mind the need to identify and to reconcile ends, ways, and means when seeking to advance the national interests of the United States. Sound in theory, this approach is hard to implement in practice. This course introduces cadets to actors, processes, and issues that influence US national security decisions and gives cadets a greater appreciation for the challenges associated with making and implementing national security policy.
