Using All Elements of National Power
By Michael Jacobson
In a speech last month, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates argued that meeting the various challenges facing the country in the decades ahead will require the strengthening of “important elements of national power” other than military power. America, the Secretary warned, “must create the capability to integrate and apply all of the elements of national power to problems and challenges abroad.”
Ambassador Dell Dailey, the State Department's Counterterrorism Coordinator, spoke at the Washington Institute yesterday about this critical issue, laying out how the US is trying to better integrate and utilize all elements of power in combating terrorism.
A copy of Ambassador Dailey's prepared remarks are available on the State Department website, at: http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/rm/07/97165.htm
December 13, 2007 09:49 AM Link
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Hello. If you like to know more about power and which elements have been considered important in its quantification, then the following paper New Thinking in Measuring National Power may interest you, as it enumerates a history of efforts to measure national power:
http://www.wiscnetwork.org/papers/WISC_2008-137.pdf
You may also like the resource page that contains many interesting links on the subject:
http://conducator.googlepages.com/
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