8246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: B. H. Liddell Hart
5 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
National Security – Lecture 1
D - diplomacy
I - information, intelligence, soft power
M - military
E - economics
"…the integrity of the national territory and its institutions." Hans Morganthau
Nation
• Shared identity, culture, ethnicity history, purpose and territory.
• Less formal entity, and
• Often unrecognised or contested.
State
• Recognised political community.
• Internal and external legitimacy, and
• Authority to use force.
Security
• How you feel about your situation,
• Protection and assurance, and
• Geographic social, economic, cultural, moral and physical.
Values:
"…the core values for which we stand. Values of security; or liberty; of opportunity; of
creativity. Values also of equity; of family of community; of solidarity; of sustainability.”
"we do not define our national security, as so many other nations do, by race, by religion"
Strategic Framework
• Should provide guidance for those responsible for national security.
• Authoritative.
Strategy
• Greek - the art of the General,
• Battles and campaigns to achieve the aims for the sovereign.
• Clausewitz - the combination of individual, campaigns to achieve the aims of the
sovereign, and
• Von Moltke - the practical adaption of the means placed at the General's disposal for
the attainment to political purpose.
• Basil Liddell Hart - the calculation and coordination of ways and means to achieve
ends, and
• Colin S Gray - the theory and practice of the use of organised force for political
outcomes and a bridge that relates to military power to political purpose.
Levels of Command/Thought/Action
• Strategic
o National strategic
• PM, National Security committee. Determine on going strategy.
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