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In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America's military actually does, day to day. They argue that a series of fundamental recent changes in the global system, the inevitable jostling of bureaucratic politics, and the practical limitations of field operations combine to ensure that each presidential administration inevitably resorts to a variety of strategies. Proponents of different American grand strategies have historically focused on the pivotal role of the Navy. In response, Reich and Dombrowski examine six major maritime operations, each of which reflects one major strategy. One size does not fit all, say the authors-the attempt to impose a single overarching blueprint is no longer feasible. Reich and Dombrowski declare that grand strategy, as we know it, is dead. The End of Grand Strategy is essential reading for policymakers, military strategists, and analysts and critics at advocacy groups and think tanks.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 janvier 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501714641
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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TheEndofGrandStrategy

TheEndofGrand Strategy

USMaritimeOperationsinthe Twenty-First Century

S i m o n R e i c h a n d P e t e r D o m b r o w s k i

CornellUniversityPressIthaca and London

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First published 2017 by Cornell University Press

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Reich, Simon, 1959– author. | Dombrowski, Peter J., 1963– author. Title: The end of grand strategy : US maritime operations in the twentyﬁrst century / Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2017028025 (print) | LCCN 2017032106 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501714634 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501714641 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501714627 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Seapower—United States—History—21st century. | Military doctrine—United States—History—21st century. | Naval strategy—History—21st century. | United States—History, Naval—21st century. Classiﬁcation: LCC VA50 (ebook) | LCC VA50 .R45 2017 (print) | DDC 359/.030973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017028025

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Contents

PrefaceandAcknowledgments

Introduction: Grand Strategies and Everyday Conﬂicts1.Operations and Grand Strategy in a Naval New Security Environment2. Comparing Grand Strategies—and Their Inherent Limitations3. A Maritime Strategy of Primacy in the Persian Gulf4. Playing a FollowtheLeader Strategy on the High Seas5.Terrorists, and Formal Sponsorship Pirates, 6. Navigating the Proliferation Security Initiative and Informal Sponsorship7.for the Arctic with a Strategy of Restraint Racing 8. Controlling the Southern Maritime Approaches with an Isolationist Strategy

Conclusion:MovingbeyondtheCurrentDebate

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Appendixes

1.TheStrategiesofAmericanForeignPolicy2.SelectMultilateralExercisesintheIndo-Paciﬁc3.PSIMultinationalExercisesNotes Index

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PrefaceandAcknowledgments

Intheopeningmonthsof2017,Americaisintheprocessofadramaticpresidential transition. Many commentators are already anticipating dras tic foreign policy changes as well as a general sense of administrative incoherence. As evidence, they point to the wide differences between the pronouncements of President Trump and the comments made in their conﬁrmation hearings by many of those he nominated for senior foreign policy positions. Indeed, inForeign Policyin January 2017, Micah Zenko and Rebecca Friedman Lissner pronounced that Trump had no grand strategy, before he was even sworn in as president. Clearly,theappointmentofmilitaryofﬁcialstoseniorpolicymakingpo sitions suggests a tone and approach different from the Obama administra tion’s. As we argue in this book, military personnel generally lack faith in the virtues of any grand strategy. They are pragmatic problem solvers, more comfortable with a response to speciﬁc problems than a recourse to abstract principles. That point was tellingly illustrated in James Mattis’s congressional conﬁrmation hearing for the post of Defense Secretary. When Mattis was asked about Russia he responded, “I’m all for engagement, but we also have to recognize reality and what Russia is up to. . . . There’s a decreasing number of areas where we can engage cooperatively and an in creasing number of areas where we’re going to have to confront Russia." Circumstances outweighed principle in language, policy, and practice. Inthisbook,wearguethatZenkoandLissner’scommentsabouttheTrump presidency are unwittingly symptomatic of a larger trend: that the link between values and “ways, means and ends” deﬁes the deductive for mulations about grand strategies debated by academics and formulated by policymakers. We can look back nostalgically at American grand strategy

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