Strategic planning as a way of public administration

The article reveals the assumptions and main factors for the implementation of a system of state strategic planning in Ukraine as the key link in the process of public administration. The author shows a retrospective of the attempts to legislatively regulate relations in the field of strategic planning in Ukraine and obstacles to their implementation, as well as the practice of producing ersatz of such planning in the form of numerous programs and conceptual documents of various directions and areas of application that do not allow the executive branch to formulate and implement proactive policies for achieving national development goals, rational use of resources in the intended directions and sectors of national development. The article outlines the main aspects of the author's approach to building a model of strategic national planning as a basic subsystem of public administration, which allows to achieve the intended goals of nationally rooted development by creating mechanisms for coordinated and targeted efforts of all branches of executive power and to use the synergy of the planned regulatory and administrative influence of managerial decisions to achieve desirable results in conditions of war and modern challenges of globalization.