“ВЕЛИКІ СТРАТЕГІЇ”, ВОЄННО-ПОЛІТИЧНІ ДОКТРИНИ США:НАПРЯМИ ЇХ ЕВОЛЮЦІЇ ПІСЛЯ ЗАВЕРШЕННЯ ХОЛОДНОЇВІЙНИ. УРОКИ ДЛЯ УКРАЇНИ

Abstract

The conceptual and practical aspects of security policy of the USA in terms of their reflection in the ‘Grand Strategy’, military and political-military doctrines are analyzed. The hierarchy of strategic documents that determine US security and defense policy, together with the approaches towards their development in the context of the domestic policy, global trends and forecasts, are examined. The mechanism of working out various national level strategies and doctrines in the USA can be studied as an example. This world superpower has a definitely clear set of relevant documents. First of all, we are talking about the so-called Grand strategies & High strategies that can be determined as a specific component of the political and defense planning in the US. At the current moment, any other country can hardly challenge the US Power. That is why the American ‘Grand Strategy’ is not only a strategy of the national security, but also a leverage partly influencing the international, global, Euro-Atlantic, Asia-Pacific, etc. security. Taking into account above-mentioned possible implementation of the US experience in Ukraine’s defense planning in respect to actual threats and challenges to national security is studied.