GNSI Decision Brief: Educate as You Operate: Developing National Security Practitioners for Strategic Competition

Authors

• David Oakley, Global and National Security Institute
• David H. Ucko, National Defense University

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Description

Amid a “rapidly changing world,” shaped by “strategic competition” and “shared challenges,” the 2022 National Security Strategy (NSS) set out a U.S. vision for a global environment “that is free, open, secure, and prosperous.” Achieving this vision, it acknowledged, will “demand increased global cooperation,” not only across the United States Government but with its partners and allies.i In similar terms, the 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) recognized the novel threats of near-peer competitors and emphasized the need to work “seamlessly across warfighting domains, theaters, the spectrum of conflict, all instruments of U.S. national power and our networks of alliances and partners.” It seems the NDS and NSS authors believe good strategy is important, but integration is key to its implementation.

Publication Date

2-7-2024

Keywords

National security, strategic competition, National Security Strategy, NSS, professional military education, civilian education, military strategy, defense education, strategic thinking, national security education

Recommended Citation

Oakley, David and Ucko, David H., "GNSI Decision Brief: Educate as You Operate: Developing National Security Practitioners for Strategic Competition" (2024). GNSI Decision Briefs. 10.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/gnsi_decision_briefs/10

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5038/CBPS6658