ABSTRACT
The American strategic culture and view of security, while asserting the universality of its defense model, based on its experience and values, imposed a de facto hegemony of norms and values on others. Through the National Security Act to the Homeland Security Act, the United States has fundamentally redefined its security paradigm. In 1952, Arnold Wolfers defined national security as a system directed to creating an absence of a threat to a society’s essential values. President Reagan signed the first security directive, National Security Directive, in April 1982, which was titled “Managing Terrorist Incidents.” The Defense Department and the neoconservatives shared a common approach towards the role of the United States as the sole guarantor of international order. They aspired to pursue the projects of the Reagan era by following unconventional strategies by integrating the domestic security sector and national defense.
