All the President’s NSCs

May 28th, 2012 by zen

Dalleck, Robert. Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. Harper Perennial. New York, NY. 2007

Gates, Robert. From the Shadows. Simon & Schuster. New York, NY. 1996.

Kissinger, Henry. White House Years. Simon & Schuster. New York, NY. 2011.

Menges, Constantine. Inside the National Security Council. Touchstone Books. 1989.

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  1. J. Scott Shipman:

    May 28th, 2012 at 6:26 pm

    Hi Zen, Excellent addition! Rei has written a insightful piece. This is sentence stands out:
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    In crisis decision-making, which takes up an extraordinary amount of bandwidth and which is politically delicate, bureaucracy can’t be allowed. 
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    Achieving this is increasingly difficult, as bureaucracy (and/or groupthink) seems to be an ever growing phenomena.
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    Further, your concluding sentence is  spot-on; the NSC is one place where executive discretion is pretty broad, so the “how they do it” is a good reflection of executive judgement/priorities.