ABSTRACT
The making of national security policy requires choices about both the objectives of policy (ends), and the techniques, resources, instruments, and actions which will be used to implement it (means). Even if one assumes that neither political nor perceptual problems interfere with the process, these choices are not straightforward…. Complete security cannot be obtained in any anarchic system, and, therefore, to hold that goal as an aspiration is to condemn oneself to pursuit of an operationally impossible objective.
