America’s national security structure remains hampered by Service parochialism and agency special interests and is seemingly beyond the control of Congress or the White House. Accordingly, it can continue to meet today’s challenges in last century’s fashion, often resorting to force and draining fiscal resources while damaging the Nation’s soft power. Alternately, it can shrink from global engagement which, while attractive on its face, could also erode soft power and land Washington in an unfavorable security environment. The contention here is that the United States must revamp its security bureaucracy, creating a civilian-led interagency structure with the authority, oversight, and funding to act at the regional level, applying all U.S. instruments of power, including military, within given geographical areas.