Strategic Context of Joint Warfighting EPI 2: Power and Strategy: Navigating Global Power

Описание: Step inside the Department of Defense’s worldview. In this episode, we unpack the core concepts the DoD uses to understand the international system—who the key actors are, the lenses they use to interpret their own position and others, how power is leveraged in real interactions, and how strategies are built to pursue national interests in a dynamic strategic environment.






This podcast was created using the following reference materials:






Stephen McGlinchey, Rosie Walters and Dana Gold. “Introducing the Major International Relations Theories”, E-International Relations, Dec 29, 2024


David Jablonsky, "National Power," Parameters 27, no. 1 (1997), doi:10.55540/0031-1723.1815.


Harry R. Yarger, Strategic Theory for the 21st Century: The Little Book on Big Strategy, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania: Strategic Studies Institute, 2006;


Chapter I – “Introduction” (pages 1-3)


Chapter II – “A Theory Stated: Strategy’s Logic”(pages 5-16)


Chapter III – “The Strategic Environment” (pages17-29),


Chapter IV “Theory in the Real World” (pages 31 to 39and pages 47-64)


Chapter V “The Strategy Paradigm in Short” (pages65-71)


Joint Publication 1, Vol. 1, Joint Warfighting, (August 2023) Chapter II, “Foundations of Joint Warfighting(page II-1 to II-15) and Chapter III, paragraph 4 “Strategic Competition” (pageIII-8 to III-21).