Journal of Defense Management
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Policy Analysis and Methodology of Security Affairs

Robert Scott^{* *}Correspondence: Robert Scott, Department of Defense Management, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Jamia Nagar, Okhla, New Delhi, India, Email:

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Description

Most Americans would have rejected the idea that their nation needed a robust national security strategy to impose control over events well beyond its borders a century ago. Despite his best efforts, President Theodore Roosevelt's vision for the United States was not broadly accepted. The majority of his compatriots followed George Washington's advice to keep the nation free of foreign entanglements.

By the middle of the 20^th century, the majority of Americans had changed their minds. They agreed that a robust national security strategy was necessary. They learned to reject isolationism and to acknowledge that their physical security, economic prosperity, and democratic liberties were susceptible to events abroad from their experiences in World War I, World War II, and the early Cold War. Yet, they continued to view national security in the conventional terms of defending American interests abroad and assisting in the defence of close allies in Europe and Asia. Generally speaking, national security policy was defined in terms of specific geographic regions beyond which the United States had little to lose. The Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia were seen to be significantly outside of US national interests and its strategic sphere of influence.

Policy analysis of security affairs

A national security policy is a coordinated activity or an integrated series of acts, ranging from making public pronouncements to waging war, that are designed to have positive outcomes and advance stated national objectives. These objectives may include defending a nation's boundaries or subduing its adversaries. An organised attempt to look into the fundamental characteristics of potential policies is called policy analysis. It can be performed within the government or outside it, by proponents or by critics who wish to have new policies adopted. Effective policy analysis carefully examines policies, including their aims, activities, justifications, and outcomes.

Methodology of security affairs

Finding new international goals to pursue or existing ones that require new efforts is frequently one of the most crucial roles of policy analysis. Policy analysis may draw attention to opportunities that will be available in the immediate, mid, or long term as well as to new dangers and challenges to important U.S. goals. Determining the most effective and efficient way to pursue important goals is another important role of policy analysis. By comparing different strategies and possibilities, policy analysis can determine how well they stack up against one another. It can aid in figuring out how new technologies can be created and used for governmental objectives.

It can be useful in figuring out how various programmed endeavours in various fields might be merged to serve a single objective. It can be used to keep an eye on policies as they are put into practise, offer advice on how to fix them midstream, and decide when to terminate them.

• Policy analysis is evaluated differently from academic research since it strives for relevance.

• To further the pursuit of truth and advance humanity's comprehension of the world is the primary goal of scholarly study within the academic community.

• Yet, in terms of its functional role, policy analysis' ultimate goal is to assist the government in conducting its foreign policy more prudently and in making better use of its strategic power.

Conclusion

The best policy analysis cannot typically be carried out by "hired guns" who are not well-versed in the relevant substantive concerns; knowledge of the profession's methodologies is not sufficient. But, those who are knowledgeable about the underlying difficulties stand to gain greatly from using this tradecraft. , "When the policy issues are complicated and demanding, and when the policy issues are complex and unpredictable. The academic community is aware that when authors and speakers discuss options for national security policy, their work is best prepared and is most well-received when it is based on methodical study. Important national security studies are rarely just thrown together in the government for comparable reasons; instead, they are typically undertaken as systematic analysis.