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Focusing the Lens: A Framework for National Security Decision-Making With a Case Study of National Missile Defense

Focusing the Lens: A Framework for National Security Decision-Making With a Case Study of National Missile Defense

Vautrinot, Suzanne M.
Air University (U S ) Air Force Fellows
John F Kennedy School of Government

Paperback

General EducationGeneral Political ScienceMilitary Strategy

ISBN10: 1249413397
ISBN13: 9781249413394
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Published: Sep 17 2012
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Can decision-makers determine whether the timing is favorable before pursuing a specific course of action in implementing a national security program, particularly an innovation that requires simultaneous changes in technology, organization, strategy and policy? National security innovators have no problem inventing a very clever pudding, but knowing when the pudding will be cooked becomes a more difficult task. To answer such a question, this paper develops the Lens Framework: a tool for analyzing the myriad of players and issues that color and shape the decision-making landscape. At the heart of this framework is the idea that, in an environment of constrained and competing resources, the decision to expend intellectual and fiscal capital to push a program forward must be accompanied by a predictive assessment of whether the program has the requisite consensus for success. This assessment is most difficult when the program requires fundamental changes in government institutions, policy, and technology; specifically, when it is a national security innovation.

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