The growth of the systemic impact of the challenges and threats to national security necessitates the adoption of government-management decisions that should be adequate to existing trends of rather ambiguous and contradictory socio-political and socio-economic processes. Strategic planning as a function of strategic management today is considered as a universal mechanism for balancing the goals and capabilities of the state with respect to its development. To the quality of the results of strategic planning in the field of political security put forward quite stringent requirements. Their successful implementation depends to a large extent on understanding of the subjects involved in this process, its essence, as well as on the use of their effective methodological tools for achieving the planning objectives. Scientists and planners singled out two ways of planning. At the heart of the first method of planning is – description and analysis of the current state, that is, the initial conditions, and on this basis, prediction of the future. At the heart of the second is the idea of designing the future and then trying to formulate action plans, the implementation of which can lead to the achievement of the planned future. As a result of analysis showed that in order to study the interconnections between these factors, it is expedient to use system and situational approaches and system analysis. Political and strategic forecasting is used to obtain predictive estimates of their development. The essence of strategic planning in the interests of ensuring political security is the search for an answer to the question: the declared national goals in the political sphere are adequate to the national political interests, which is the probability of their achievement (taking into account the capabilities (resources) of the state and the possible actions (goals, strategies) of other countries underlying their foreign and domestic policies). The effectiveness of public administration in the sphere of political security depends to a large extent on the quality of strategic planning, which should be based on the results of strategic forecasting (developing long-term forecasts for the development of political security situations and management strategies for adequate responses to them). Accordingly, the main attention of the subjects of this planning should be focused on ensuring the quality of the results of strategic analysis, which must necessarily take into account the consequences of the implementation of certain management decisions in the future, public support, resource capabilities, solving socio-political development, planning and the implementation of relevant foreign-policy actions. Strategic planning in the sphere of political security is the development of strategic documents. The features of the development of the object of management, adequate perception and a thorough analysis of external and internal environmental factors of its functioning should be taken into account in the process of their development.
Strategy as planning document
