The Security Culture and the Strategic Culture of the USA in 2001– 2008

Abstract

The security culture of the 43rd President of the USA is tested in the light of
instrumental preferences, while the strategic culture is seen in the light of
the measures and means used in the process of the realization of the
political aims. The National Security Strategy 2002 and the decision to wage
the second Iraqi War without a clear mandate of the UNSC and in spite of
the negative attitude of many allies are symptoms of unilateralism and of a
unique type of militarism; this militarism was generated not by the military,
but by the politicians. In the military sphere, the Iraqi war was very well
prepared and conducted. The article concludes that in 2001–2008, the USA
failed in the field of the security culture, but it was successful in the field of
the strategic culture.