Strategic Culture has appealed to political theorists since Jack Snyder first introduced the concept in his 1977 work “The Soviet Strategic Culture: Implications for Limited Nuclear Operations.”*

Researchers theorize that aspects of a society’s culture can influence security policy and practice but have had difficulty producing a reliable definition. This could be resolved by establishing a consistent relationship between specific aspects of culture and distinctive security preferences as they relate to an independent causal factor.  

 This thesis proposes to establish a direct, causal relationship between a society’s dominant strategic and biophysical environment, and the aspects of their culture that influence security priorities and preferences, as the basis for a redefinition of the concept.  

 There is a human preference for collective security that requires collaborative interaction with predominating, physical resources, and strategic challenges. Societies, therefore, develop a Strategic Culture, or shared, core, political, social, and economic values, and security preferences and priorities specific to their unique environment.