Making America Grand Again: Toward a New Grand Strategy

Publication Date: June 2008

Publisher: Center for a New American Security

Author(s): Vikram J. Singh; Michele A. Flournoy; Shawn Brimley

Research Area: Politics

Keywords: American interests; Presidential transition; Globalization

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Grand strategy articulates a vision for a nation's role in the world and helps it set priorities, illuminate the near-term and long-term costs and benefits of various courses of action, and explain choices to its own people and to other nations. The next president must take up the challenge of redefining America's purpose in the world and setting a new course. In this year of firsts, the next president should give the country its first grand strategy for the 21st century by going back to basics: to the nature of the world and how best to understand, protect, and advance U.S. interests.