Abstract
This thesis considers national security strategy. Denmark does not have a national security strategy. Though, Denmark has published many different strategies on various topics, all concerning global security issues, no strategy is overarching the others. Security policy is to be found a little here and a little there. Denmark’s strategies do express very useful political guidance but no more than guidance. The strategies are not sufficiently explicit for the strategist to do strategy.
This thesis has analysed some of Denmark’s strategies and the national security strategies of Great Britain and Norway. The strategies have been examined through the use of Hedley Bull’s The International Society and Colin S. Gray’s The General Theory of Strategy. The thesis concludes that Denmark does write very useful policies and Theater Strategies, indeed. However, Denmark still has a long way to go in order to make national security strategies that are of a comprehensive and thorough analytical depth.
This thesis recommends emphasising threat identification and aiming for objectives of national interest rather than national values. Also, it recommends that the political-strategic level takes upon them the responsibility of matching the instruments of power to the threats facing the state and society.