This study is the result of months of analysis, discussion and drafting by a group of top security policy experts concerned with the preeminent totalitarian threat of our time: the legal-political-military doctrine known within Islam as Jihadism. This paper recommends corrective actions, starting with a clear-eyed understanding of the enemy we confront -- namely, an international, ideologically driven Global Jihad Movement and its enablers -- and the essential elements of an effective strategy for countering it. The alternative approach is modeled after the successful strategy President Ronald Reagan pursued to defeat Soviet communism, embodied in his National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 75.