Orchestrating the Instruments of Power
A Critical Examination of the
U.S. National Security System

D. Robert Worley
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015

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Introduction

PART I: Foundational Concepts and Principles

Chapter 1: Primer on Security Concepts

Chapter 2: War and American Democracy

Chapter 3: War Powers

PART II: National Security Strategies

Chapter 4: Grand Strategy

Chapter 5: Cold War Strategies

Chapter 6: Post-Cold War Strategies

Policy statements for uses of force at the low end of the conflict spectrum—including guerrilla, psychological, and political warfare—are given here, spanning both Cold War and post-Cold War periods.

PART III: National Security Apparatus

Chapter 7: Instruments of Power

Chapter 8: Mechanisms of Power

Chapter 9: National Security Council

PART IV: National Security Reform

Chapter 10: Major Reform Proposals

Chapter 11: Strategy First

Additional Supplements:

Presidents

Inaugural speeches html

Presidential rankings html gives background, points to individual studies, compares results

State of the Union addresses html