Seeking A National Strategy: A Concert For Preserving Security and Promoting Freed
Released on 15 April 2000, Seeking a National Strategy: A Concert for Preserving Security and Promoting Freedom proposes a new national security strategy based on the anticipated 21st century international security environment. The new strategy must consider how to minimize the potential destabilizing effects of the contradictory trends of globalization and political fragmentation while promoting US interests and values worldwide.
Read more about this topic: US Commission On National Security/21st Century, Phase II Report
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