Resource Type:

Report-Paper

Posted On: Dec 23, 2008

Posted By: Francesco Femia

URL:

http://stimson.org/Presidential_Inbox_2009/GADAMS_BFAD_FORMAT_FINAL_09_08.pdf

Description:

In this piece for the Henry L. Stimson Center's "Presidential Inbox, 2009" initiative, Gordon Adams, the former senior White House budget official for national security during the Clinton Administration, calls on the new president to:

- strengthen and empower the civilian instruments of statecraft

- properly assign responsibilities for foreign and security assistance and;

- restore discipline and focus to the military instrument