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Grand Strategy
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the means by which a country achieves its objections within the constraints it faces
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Components of Grand Strategy
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Interests, threats to those interests, strategy for countering those threats, forces to implement the strategy
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Fundamental interests
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Interests valued for their own sake, an end in itself not a means
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security, economic prosperity, humanitarian interests, political/ideological interests
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Derivative interests
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reflect causal beliefs connecting fundamental interests to more specific interests
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-spreading democracy to reduce probability of war
-reduce sources of terrorism, -maintaining division of eurasia, -preventing war between other major -powers preventing proliferation access to gulf oil, maintain an open international trading system |
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Magnitude and Nature of threat
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Opposing capabilities/potential: power, size, difficulty of defense or deterrence, type of adversary (motives)- would they want to invade you?,
what do they want? why?- security seeking vs. greedy states |
power/size/difficulty of defense or deterrence/ type of adversary: what do they want, why do they want it, would they invade you?
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Threats: Basic Weapons Categories
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Conventional/ nuclear/ other WMD
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Strategy- Types of Broad Choices
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Offense, Defense and or Deterrence/ Unilateral vs. Multilateral/ Forward deployment vs. Stationing in the US/ conventional or nuclear
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Preventive war vs. deterrence/ damage limitation vs. limited war/ one is going after the adversary, one is stopping the adversary
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Deterrence
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convincing an adversary not to attack you, threatening to attack if they do
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Unilateral vs. Multilateral
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How much you rely on unilateral vs. how much you rely on allies
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can be constraining to be part of an alliance- costly in terms of coordination/ can help in terms of support for own interests an those who are tied to your interests
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Forward Deployment vs. US stationing
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putting forces forward can be a tactic to convince the adversary that you are going to fight
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