Coping With The Changing World: The Research Of US National Security Strategy Report (1990-2006)

It reveals from 11 copies of US National Security Strategy Report by George Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, that there is an obvious continuity between George Bush and Clinton, while George W. Bush is greatly different from them in the cognition, estimation, and reaction concerning US national security strategy. The appearance that there is a major fault in the formation of US national security strategy after Cold War, which generates a unstable national security strategy.The extremist concept of national security held by George W. Bush is a great change compared with the pragmatic concept of national security promoted by Clinton, George Bush, even former US presidents dating from the end of the Second World War to the end of the Cold War. His extremist concept is the fundamental reason leading to the major fault in the formation of post Cold War US national security strategy. To insist on the extremist of national security strategy means to hold on the point that US has unlimited extension, therefore, US can have unlimited targets, which becomes the fundament of establishing and implementing US national security strategy. The pragmatic concept of national security believes that US has limited on extension conducting US has limited targets. Ever since George W. Bush got into White House, the extremist concept of national security dominates US society, which is the result of the conservative trend of thought represented by neo-conservatism combing the extremist trend of George W. Bush, while being directly driven by "9.11".United States now trapped in the difficult position resulting from Iraqi War, and also George W. Bush philosophy is difficult to continue, neo-conservatism's influence declining rapidly. All those fully portents that the national security strategy based on the extremist concept of national security was failed. The primary failure is the strategy damages the profit of the United States from current overall strategy of US in passive.The status and changing trend of US strength in the world, the world situation and world's development and changes, and the qualities and abilities of American decision-makers created the formation of US national security strategy after Cold War. Also, influenced by those elements, derivative of US national security strategy after Cold War will be different from that in Cold War. When pragmatic trend dominates, extremist trend might appear with both trends infiltrating and influencing each other.