Ionut C Popescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6154075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ionut C Popescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ionut C |
| FAMILY NAME | Popescu |
| SIGNATURE | POPESCU I C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clements Center for National Security, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Adapting US Defense Strategy to Great-Power Competition
American defense strategy must shift to face the challenges of the new era of great-power competition. This article outlines the trade-offs involved among competing priorities and regions and proposes five strategic pillars to guide the development of a US military strategy, doctrine, and force structure optimized for the needs of the great-power competition era. Without the strategic planning needed to align the Pentagon’s investments and decisi…
Grand Strategy vs. Emergent Strategy in the conduct of foreign policy
Does a great power need to formulate a long-term Grand Strategy to guide its foreign policy actions? While some scholars continue to debate the competing merits of various grand strategies, a growing literature now emphasizes emergent learning and improvisation as the keys to success, as opposed to implementing a long-term design. In this article, I explore these scholarly arguments by framing the debate as one between two schools of thought, Gra…
Strategic Uncertainty, the Third Offset, and the US Grand Strategy
This article demonstrates the usefulness of rethinking our understanding of uncertainty and how that might affect the course of the Department of Defense's Third Offset Strategy and US grand strategy in general. In the foreword to the 2015 national military strategy, General Martin E. Dempsey, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff unequivocally states: Today's global security environment is the most unpredictable I have seen in 40 years of s…
The Disputed Importance of Process in the Making of American Grand Strategy, 2009
Strategic Theory and Practice
This study argues that the strategic planning process of the Long War on Terror has been conducted in a manner that did not pay sufficient attention to the tenets of classical strategic theory. The article shows that the strategy encapsulated in the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism and the Pentagon's initial responses to the challenges of irregular warfare departed from important principles associated with Clausewitz and other strategic …
Grand Strategy vs. Emergent Strategy in the conduct of foreign policy
Does a great power need to formulate a long-term Grand Strategy to guide its foreign policy actions? While some scholars continue to debate the competing merits of various grand strategies, a growing literature now emphasizes emergent learning and improvisation as the keys to success, as opposed to implementing a long-term design. In this article, I explore these scholarly arguments by framing the debate as one between two schools of thought, Gra…
Strategic Theory and Practice
This study argues that the strategic planning process of the Long War on Terror has been conducted in a manner that did not pay sufficient attention to the tenets of classical strategic theory. The article shows that the strategy encapsulated in the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism and the Pentagon's initial responses to the challenges of irregular warfare departed from important principles associated with Clausewitz and other strategic …
The Disputed Importance of Process in the Making of American Grand Strategy, 2009
Strategic Uncertainty, the Third Offset, and the US Grand Strategy
This article demonstrates the usefulness of rethinking our understanding of uncertainty and how that might affect the course of the Department of Defense's Third Offset Strategy and US grand strategy in general. In the foreword to the 2015 national military strategy, General Martin E. Dempsey, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff unequivocally states: Today's global security environment is the most unpredictable I have seen in 40 years of s…
Grand Strategy vs. Emergent Strategy in the conduct of foreign policy
Does a great power need to formulate a long-term Grand Strategy to guide its foreign policy actions? While some scholars continue to debate the competing merits of various grand strategies, a growing literature now emphasizes emergent learning and improvisation as the keys to success, as opposed to implementing a long-term design. In this article, I explore these scholarly arguments by framing the debate as one between two schools of thought, Gra…
Adapting US Defense Strategy to Great-Power Competition
American defense strategy must shift to face the challenges of the new era of great-power competition. This article outlines the trade-offs involved among competing priorities and regions and proposes five strategic pillars to guide the development of a US military strategy, doctrine, and force structure optimized for the needs of the great-power competition era. Without the strategic planning needed to align the Pentagon’s investments and decisi…
International Relations and Foreign Policy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Grand strategy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Defense, Military, and Policy Studies (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Process (computing (2 works) · Administration (probate law (1 work)