New directions for strategic studies? How can theory help practice? [1992]

Strategic studies is not a self-sustaining “multidiscipline” or field committed to the pursuit of an absolute vision of truth. Rather, strategic studies is a practical subject focused upon the means-ends relationships which political bodies, most typically governments, endeavor to manage with reference to security. Ultimately that security relates to physical security, though also it pertains to the independence of the political bodies which act strategically. An important defining characteristic of strategic studies is the salience of force, latent or actual, to the questions of interest in the field.