Mock Strategy
The crazy-quilt National Security Strategy (NSS) released some weeks back is a patchwork of declarations of intent, admonitions thrown at other countries and ad hominem statements of dubious validity.
It lacks coherence or consistency – much less a theme, a central idea, or a concept that gives pattern to its incongruent parts. Clearly, the document is the artless product of an assemblage of authors undisciplined by editorial direction.
Yet, many serious analysts claim to see in this disjointed attempt at composing a grand strategy a landmark signaling a fundamental shift in the way the United States sees itself in the realm of international affairs.