Strategic planning's popularity in public organizations cannot be denied, with legislative
initiatives even making it mandatory for certain public organizations. Due to strategic …

Grand strategy offers an effective framework to understand and explain how and why a state
interacts with other actors in a given way and how it combines various military, diplomatic …

The principles and formalities of modern US Defence planning stem from the 1960s and
have largely served well. This paper, however, is about the special challenges that arise …

This article analyzes US defense planning, and more specifically the public administration of
the third offset strategy. The US defense bureaucracy is rooted in a tradition of rational …

This paper extends the strategic planning literature by developing four original propositions
about factors that affect the conduct of strategic reviews by government agencies. The …

Defense ministries conduct strategic planning in various ways. In this article I outline
tradeoffs in the design of strategic planning processes, and consider the implications of …

The purpose of this article is to analyse the design and implementation of strategic planning
and performance management in governmental agencies in two Nordic countries, Finland …

The key debate among contemporary academics over grand strategy pertains to what grand
strategy the country should follow: whether the United States should engage in restraint …

THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II posed new challenges for the United States. Since
resources would be scarce relative to requirements, officials hoped to extract efficiencies …

A central administrative doctrine in new public management (Hood, 1995) and reinventing
government (Osborne & Gaebler, 1992) has been the notion that public sector organizations …