1. Visioning, Strategic Planning, and Corporate Evolution : The Degree of Departure from Previous Approaches -- The Role of Organizational Characteristics -- Contending with Constricted Latitude -- Expanding the Horizons for Strategic Planning -- Steps for Effective Implementation ; 2. Precursors of Strategic Visioning : Discontinuous Change in the Early Post-Cold War Period : The Rice-McPeak Era : Supplying the Air Force with a Strategic Vision -- The Gulf War : Changing the Air Force's Self-Conception -- Alliance Reversa : The Impact of the Gulf War on the Defense Policy Subsystem -- Space-Based Provision of Military Intelligence -- Origins of the Fogleman-Era Strategic Vision ; 3. Planning with Dialogue and Passion : The Fogleman Round -- Strategic Visioning and Long-Range Planning as Policy Management -- The Strategic Planning Agenda -- Moving toward the Corona Conference -- From Strategic Vision to Long-Range Plan ; 4. The Ryan-Peters Round -- Taking Stock of the Fogleman Round -- The Next Round : Unfinished Business -- The Ryan-Peters Visioning Process : General Ryan's Approach ; 5. Understanding Strategic Visioning as a Practice -- Innovating the Strategic Visioning Practice -- Analyzing Process Designs for Effective Strategic Visioning : The Fogleman Round -- Explaining Performance in the Ryan-Peters Round -- Case Comparison : Toward Generalization about Strategic Visioning Practice -- The Air Force Experience in Broader Focus ; 6. Continuing Institutional Issues : Planning, Resourcing, and Governance -- Planning and Shifts in Fiscal Circumstances -- Persistent Disjunctions between Planning and Programming -- Fixing the Corporate Structure ; 7. The Process of Implementing Strategic Intent -- Origins of the U.S. Air Force Predator Program -- Predator and Strategic Intent -- Concurrent Visioning and Implementation ; 8. Processes for Corrective Visioning -- The Aerospace Integration Task Force Case -- The Space Commission : Corrective Visioning in the Defense Policy Subsystem -- The Air Force Futures Games Case ; 9. Lessons from the Air Force's Efforts to Overcome Incrementalism : Toward Revitalized Governance -- Taking the Lessons to a Wider Audience -- Revitalizing the Role of Public Service in Government -- Linking Policy Foresight and Strategic Intent -- Linking Strategic Visioning with Policy and Expenditure Planning and Human Resources and Organizational Planning -- Linking Strategic Planning and Policy Management to Implementation -- Over to Policy Entrepreneurship.