The Security Culture and the Strategic Culture of the USA in 2001–2008 Cover Image

Bezpečnostní a strategická kultura USA v letech 2001–2008
The Security Culture and the Strategic Culture of the USA in 2001–2008

Author(s): Jan Eichler
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů
Keywords: security culture; strategic culture; unilateralism; militarism; Iraqi war

Summary/Abstract: The security culture of the 43rd President of the USA is tested in the light of instrumental preferences, while the strategic culture is seen in the light of the measures and means used in the process of the realization of the political aims. The National Security Strategy 2002 and the decision to wage the second Iraqi War without a clear mandate of the UNSC and in spite of the negative attitude of many allies are symptoms of unilateralism and of a unique type of militarism; this militarism was generated not by the military, but by the politicians. In the military sphere, the Iraqi war was very well prepared and conducted. The article concludes that in 2001–2008, the USA failed in the field of the security culture, but it was successful in the field of the strategic culture.

  • Issue Year: 45/2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 48-70
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Czech