Leading at the speed of light : new strategies for U.S. security in the information age / Daniel M. Gerstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerstein, Daniel M., 1958-

Series:

Issues in twenty-first century warfare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--United States.

National security.

Information society.

United States.

Information society--Protection--United States.

Cyberterrorism--United States--Prevention.

Cyberterrorism.

Cyberterrorism--Prevention.

Political leadership--United States.

Political leadership.

Physical Description:

xx, 185 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2006]

Summary:

As the world moves into the Information Age, globalization continues to alter the customary relationships among peoples, societies, and nations that evolved during the Industrial Age. Author Daniel Gerstein, however, maintains the United States still follows an Industrial Age framework for national security. Despite such recent changes as creating the Department of Homeland Security and the post of a director for national intelligence, the current national security strategy remains based on the National Security Act of 1947. To advance the U.S. response to the particular demands of the Information Age, Gerstein proposes nothing short of overhauling the nation's security strategy and, more important, complementary changes to the U.S. approach to strategic leadership.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Strategy and Leadership 1

Chapter 2 Lists of Lists 11

What the Experts Say 11

And the Practitioners 18

An Equation for Leadership 34

Chapter 3 Globalization and the Information Age 37

Describing the New National Security Environment 37

A Different Way of Thinking 46

Network-Centric Operations 51

A New Way to Lead 57

The Geometry of Leadership 60

The Moral-Ethical Dimension 62

Leaders as Learning Organisms 64

The Information Age National Security Leader 66

Chapter 4 Leading in the Information Age 73

Vision and Communication 74

Analysis and Judgment 91

Imagination, Innovation, and Initiative 113

Next Generation Information Age Leader 120

Identifying and Developing the Next Generation Information Age Leader 129

Chapter 5 Three Big Ideas for U.S. National Leadership in the Information Age 135

A New National Security for the Information Age 136

Establishing a System of National Service 145

Committing to a Greater National Investment in the Promotion of the International Benefits of Globalization 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177) and index.

ISBN:

159797059X

1597970603

OCLC:

70673206

Publisher Number:

9781597970594

9781597970600