Evolving Soviet Perceptions of U.S. Strategy

Abstract

Commentators lament the absence of grand strategy in the foreign policies of the United States. Indeed, the real need for a more strategic vision in U.S. policy provided the original impetus to the founding of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in 1962. The need is far easier to identify than to meet, and much of what passes for strategic thinking is a disappointing rehash of ideology or budget rationale. The essays that follow shed new light on the character of U.S. strategy and the choices confronting Americans today.