Road Map for National Security

Within this report is a plan to strengthen America from the inside, including suggestions on everything from recapitalizing on America’s strengths in science and education to ambitious redesigns of the State Department, the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and Space Policy.

An exhaustive study by some of the most informed and intelligent minds of our time, the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century concluded this, Phase III of their three-year study on securing the national homeland, in mid-2001.

All things considered, Road Map for National Security could not have come at a better time. A highly ambitious, thoroughly researched, and absolutely possible vision of America’s secure future in a turbulent world, this book is of critical importance to all Americans, and indeed, all citizens of the world.

The members of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century are:

• Gary Hart, Former U.S. Senator
• Warren B. Rudman, Former U.S. Senator
• Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House
• James R. Schlessinger, Former Secretary of Defense
• Harry D. Train
• Andrew Young
• Norman R. Augustine
• Lee Hamilton
• Lionel H. Olmer
• Leslie H. Gelb
• John R. Galvin
• Anne Armstrong
• Donald Rice
• John Daney