Assignment Instructions

While working as an analyst in a Combatant Command, a tasking has come down from a senior official which says: Make me smart about National Security and Diplomacy - how do they interrelate, how does it function, some history and provide me with future recommendations regarding this and how it all ties together the military, national security and diplomacy stuff!!

Your job is to respond to this tasking by writing a profile of National Security and Diplomacy with the above as a loose guideline. Your profile is required to be 12-15 pages, double spaced, 12 point font, times new roman, excluding bibliography and title page. Please ensure your bibliography is in Turabian format. The use of in your profile of several PowerPoint briefing slides is also strongly encouraged.

1. Concise introduction to National Security and Diplomacy

2. Discussion of the principles and elements of National Security and Diplomacy (soft & hard power, foreign aid, economic power, political power, cross cultural norms and any other relevant aspects)

3. Discussion of how Diplomacy serve the needs of the USG and the its relationship to the projection of military power

4. Your conclusions based on 1-3

5. Recommendations regarding the best possible methods for American Diplomacy