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national security strategy for the new century. This report, submitted in accordance with Section 603 of the Goldwater - Nichols Defense Department Reorganization Act of 1986, sets...
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A National Security Strategy for a New Century, October 1998 Subject: This document is an updated and more detailed version of the May 1997 National Security Strategy. This version appears to provide a little more emphasis on environmental security and public health issues.
- May 1997
- I. Leadership Today For a Safer, More Prosperous Tomorrow
- Challenges and Opportunities
- The Imperative of Engagement
- Implementing the Strategy
- II. Advancing U.S. National Interests
- Drug Trafficking
- InternationalOrganized Crime
- Environmentaland Security Concerns
- Intelligence
- Space
- Missile Defense
- Information Infrastructure
- National Security Emergency Preparedness
- Promoting Prosperity
- Export ControlReform
- Other Economic Objectives
- III. Integrated Regional Approaches
- The Western Hemisphere
- The Middle East, Southwest and South Asia
- Africa
- IV. Conclusions
Preface I. Leadership Today For a Safer, More Prosperous Tomorrow Challenges and Opportunities The Imperative of Engagement Implementing the Strategy II. Advancing U.S. National Interests Enhancing Security Threats to U.S. Interests The Need for Integrated Approaches Shaping the International Environment Responding to Crises Preparing Now for an Un...
Our national security strategy must always be judged by its success in meeting the fundamental purposes set out in the Constitution: ...provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,... Since the founding of the nation, certain requirements have remained constant. We ...
The security environment in which we live is dynamic and uncertain, replete with numerous challenges. Ethnic conflict and outlaw states threaten stability in many regions of the world. Weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, organized crime and environmental damage are global concerns that transcend national borders. Yet, this is also a period of g...
These observations make our strategic approach clear. First, we must be prepared and willing to use all appropriate instruments of national power to influence the actions of other states and non-state actors. Second, we must have the demonstrated will and capabilities to continue to exert global leadership and remain the preferred security partner ...
Though we must always be prepared to act alone, when necessary, or as a leader of an ad hoc coalition that may form around a specific objective, we cannot always accomplish our foreign policy goals unilaterally. An important element of our security preparedness depends on durable relationships with allies and other friendly nations. Accordingly, a ...
As stated, the goal of the national security strategy is to ensure the protection of our nation's fundamental and enduring needs: protect the lives and safety of Americans; maintain the sovereignty of the United States, with its values, institutions and territory intact; and provide for the prosperity of the nation and its people. We seek to create...
The U.S. response to the global scourge of drug abuse and drug trafficking is to integrate domestic and international efforts to reduce both the demand and the supply of drugs. Its ultimate success will depend on concerted efforts by the public, all levels of government and the private sector together with other governments, private groups and inte...
International organized crime undermines fragile new democracies as well as developing nations and challenges our own security. In parts of the former Soviet Union, for instance, organized crime poses a threat to our interests because of the potential for theft and smuggling of inherited nuclear materials remaining in those countries. To fight orga...
Environmental threats do not heed national borders and can pose long-term dangers to our security and well-being. Natural resource scarcities often trigger and exacerbate conflict. Environmental threats such as climate change, ozone depletion and the transnational movement of dangerous chemicals directly threaten the health of U.S. citizens. We mus...
Our intelligence capabilities are critical instruments for implementing our national security strategy. Comprehensive intelligence capabilities are needed to provide warning of threats to U.S. national security, give analytical support to the policy and military communities, provide near-real time intelligence in times of crisis while retaining glo...
We are committed to maintaining our leadership in space. Uninhibited access to and use of space is essential for preserving peace and protecting U.S. national security as well as civil and commercial interests. It is essential to our ability to shape and respond to current and future changes in the international environment. Our space policy object...
We have highly effective missile defense development programs designed to protect our country, deployed U.S. forces and our friends and allies against ballistic missiles armed with conventional weapons or WMD. These programs and systems complement and strengthen our deterrence and nonproliferation efforts by reducing incentives for potential prolif...
The national security posture of the United States is increasingly dependent on our information infrastructures. These infrastructures are highly interdependent and are increasingly vulnerable to tampering and exploitation. Concepts and technologies are being developed and employed to protect and defend against these vulnerabilities; we must fully ...
We will do all we can to prevent destructive forces such as terrorism, WMD use, sabotage of our information systems and natural disasters from endangering our citizens. But if an emergency occurs, we must also be prepared to respond effectively to protect lives and property and ensure the survival of our institutions and national infrastructure. Na...
The second core objective of our national security strategy is to promote America's prosperity through efforts both at home and abroad. Our economic and security interests are inextricably linked. Prosperity at home depends on our leadership in the global economy. The strength of our diplomacy, our ability to maintain an unrivaled military, the att...
Through reforming the export licensing system, we seek to support U.S. exporters' efforts to compete on a level playing field with their foreign competition by removing unnecessarily burdensome licensing requirements left over from the Cold War. We seek continued appropriate refinements to the dual-use and munitions licensing process and enactment ...
We are confronting bribery and corruption by seeking to have OECD members criminalize the bribery of foreign officials and eliminate the tax deductibility of foreign bribes and by promoting greater transparency in government procurement regimes. To date, our efforts on procurement have been concentrated in the World Bank and the regional developmen...
Our policies toward different regions reflect our overall strategy tailored to their unique challenges and opportunities.
The end of armed conflict in Central America and other improvements in regional security have coincided with remarkable political and economic progress throughout the hemisphere. Our hemisphere enters the twenty-first century with an unprecedented opportunity to build a future of stability and prosperity building on the fact that every nation in th...
The United States has enduring interests in pursuing a just, lasting and comprehensive Middle East peace, ensuring the security and well-being of Israel, helping our Arab friends provide for their security, and maintaining the free flow of oil at reasonable prices. Our strategy reflects those interests and the unique characteristics of the region a...
In recent years, U.S. policies have supported significant changes in Africa: multi-party democracies are more common; new constitutions have been promulgated; elections are becoming more frequent and open; the press is more free today; and the need for budgetary and financial discipline is better understood. While we will not be able to address eve...
Today, closer to the start of the twenty-first century than to the end of the Cold War, we are embarking on a period of construction to build new frameworks, partnerships and institutions--and adapt existing ones--that strengthen America's security and prosperity. We are working to construct new cooperative security arrangements, rid the world of w...
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