Navy Strategy Development: Strategy in the 21st Century
Authors
Russell, James A.
Wirtz, James J.
Abenheim, Donald
Young, Thomas-Durell
Wueger, Diana
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Date of Issue
2015-06
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Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School.
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en_US
Abstract
This project examines the process by which the United States Navy formulates and implements strategy. Strategy is traditionally understood as the linkage of ends, ways, and means to achieve specific objectives, while the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military Terms narrows the definition to “A prudent idea or set of ideas for employing the instruments of national power in a synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve theater, national, and/or multinational objectives.”1 OPNAV’s task, however, is to formulate an organizational strategy that enables the Navy to support higher-level policy objectives. This type of strategy ideally should be framed by a conceptual analysis of the future security environment and U.S. defense policy. For OPNAV, Navy strategy is transformative in the sense that it offers a plan to create the Navy of tomorrow out of the Navy of today.
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Report
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External Writings on the Naval Postgraduate School
Naval Research Program (NRP)
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Project sponsored by the Naval Research Program (Project Number: FY14-N3/N5-0001) at the Naval Postgraduate School in support of OPNAV N3/N5.
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46 p.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.