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  NATIONAL COMMAND AUTHORITY
  1-2. The National Command Authority (NCA) exercises overall control of the
  application of all instruments of national power in planning and carrying out
  the national security strategy. Thus, the NCA includes the cabinet ministers
  responsible for those instruments of power: the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
  Minister of Public Information, Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs,
  Minister of the Interior, and Minister of Defense, along with other members
  selected by the State’s President, who chairs the NCA. (See Figure 1-1.)
  1-3. The President also appoints a Minister of National Security, who heads
  the Strategic Integration Department (SID) within the NCA. The SID is the
  overarching agency responsible for integrating all the instruments of national
  power under one cohesive national security strategy. The SID coordinates the
  plans and actions of all State ministries, but particularly those associated
  with the instruments of power.
  NATIONAL STRATEGIC GOALS
  1-4. The NCA determines the State’s strategic goals. The State’s overall goals
  are to continually expand its influence within its region and eventually
  change its position within the global community. These are the long-term
  aims of the State.
  1-5. Supporting the overall, long-term, strategic goals, there may be one or
  more specific goals, each based on a particular threat or opportunity. Exam-
  ples of specific strategic goals might be
  • Annexation of territory.
  • Economic expansion.
  • Destruction of an insurgency.
  • Protection of a related minority in a neighboring country.
  • Acquisition of natural resources located outside the State’s boundaries.
  • Destruction of external weapons, forces, or facilities that threaten the
  existence of the State.
  • Defense of the State against invasion.
  • Preclusion or elimination of outside intervention.
  Each of these specific goals contributes to achieving the overall strategic
  goals.
  FRAMEWORK FOR IMPLEMENTING NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
  1-6. In pursuit of its national security strategy, the State is prepared to con-
  duct four basic types of strategic-level courses of action. Each course of action
  involves the use of all four instruments of national power, but to different de-
  grees and in different ways. The State gives the four types the following names:
  • Strategic operationsstrategic-level course of action that uses all in-
  struments of power in peace and war to achieve the goals of the State’s na-
  tional security strategy by attacking the enemy’s strategic centers of grav-
  ity. (See the Strategic Operations section of this chapter for more detail.)