The Policy Making Process: The Executive Branch, Bureaucracy, and Congress
Public policy is arguably the most important part of American national security, because the intent to protect the nation cannot be carried out without the right strategies being enacted, codified into law and then implemented. Public policy itself is a process by which actions are taken by the executive branches of a nation to address issues identified, through the use of practices consistent with the law and customs of the nation.
In policy making for national security issues, one of the most important choices is deciding what is simply political, or what is strictly a national security issue. The decision making process is shared by the executive and the legislative …show more content…
The department’s main aim is to ensure that the United States is safe, strong and resilient against any attacks on American interests or way of life. Homeland security is involved in national security policy based on their duties as the guardian of stateside freedom. With duties including emergency preparedness, domestic and international intelligence gathering and dissemination, critical infrastructural perimeter protection, radioactive detection and border control, homeland security is important in the national security policy making …show more content…
This is almost not possible as national security policy factors are never in black and white. A president whose political party has the majority in the senate still has to get a favorable public opinion if he wishes to stay in power. The president has powers to create national security polices in times of crisis, but the congress has the ability to influence long term national security policies through constitutional authority. The executive and the legislative arms of government cannot singlehandedly make policies by themselves so there is a delegation to experts who know more about the different fields that created policies would affect. These experts have the ability to make decisions that can result in strong national security policies for the nation, but experts are wont to support the beliefs of their affiliate agencies. The defense secretary will suggest policies to favor military action while the CIA director will support policies to favor clandestine operations. The president and the congress also have their loyalists and donors to pacify. In all, the creation of public policies, especially one that involves the national security of a nation is difficult and most times are started but debated until there is a crisis that requires immediate action, and then, these
Public policy is arguably the most important part of American national security, because the intent to protect the nation cannot be carried out without the right strategies being enacted, codified into law and then implemented. Public policy itself is a process by which actions are taken by the executive branches of a nation to address issues identified, through the use of practices consistent with the law and customs of the nation.
In policy making for national security issues, one of the most important choices is deciding what is simply political, or what is strictly a national security issue. The decision making process is shared by the executive and the legislative …show more content…
The department’s main aim is to ensure that the United States is safe, strong and resilient against any attacks on American interests or way of life. Homeland security is involved in national security policy based on their duties as the guardian of stateside freedom. With duties including emergency preparedness, domestic and international intelligence gathering and dissemination, critical infrastructural perimeter protection, radioactive detection and border control, homeland security is important in the national security policy making …show more content…
This is almost not possible as national security policy factors are never in black and white. A president whose political party has the majority in the senate still has to get a favorable public opinion if he wishes to stay in power. The president has powers to create national security polices in times of crisis, but the congress has the ability to influence long term national security policies through constitutional authority. The executive and the legislative arms of government cannot singlehandedly make policies by themselves so there is a delegation to experts who know more about the different fields that created policies would affect. These experts have the ability to make decisions that can result in strong national security policies for the nation, but experts are wont to support the beliefs of their affiliate agencies. The defense secretary will suggest policies to favor military action while the CIA director will support policies to favor clandestine operations. The president and the congress also have their loyalists and donors to pacify. In all, the creation of public policies, especially one that involves the national security of a nation is difficult and most times are started but debated until there is a crisis that requires immediate action, and then, these