President Barack Obama briefs the press on a new defense strategy as Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, prepare to offer remarks at the Pentagon, Jan. 5, 2012. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
Obama Needs A Grand Strategy -- Rosa Brooks, Foreign Policy
The president gives a good speech, and sure, he got Osama bin Laden, but do his foreign policies add up to anything?
Does the United States have a grand strategy? If so, what is it?
If you rummage around on the White House's website, you'll eventually stumble across something called The National Security Strategy of the United States. In fact, you'll find more than half a dozen National Security Strategy documents, since they're congressionally mandated. (Of course, in time-honored executive-branch tradition, they're generally submitted a year or two after the deadline).
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My Comment: President Obama's lack of a grand foreign strategy is .... unfortunately .... nothing new in U.S. history. But .... fortunately ... it is also not the end of the world. And he should not feel left out .... I still do not have a clue on what is the "grand strategy" from any of the Republican Presidential hopefuls