Publication

This paper focuses on the interrelationship among national interests, stated ends, means to achieve those ends, and the strategies required to tie all of them together into a cohesive and effective vision for the commitment of US forces. The author argues that the US' inability or unwillingness to connect strategic ends and appropriate means to accomplish clearly defined goals has occurred so often since the end of the Cold War that one could make a credible argument that it has become a disturbing and pervasive characteristic of the modern American way of war.