The National Security Council: A Tool for Decision
03.22.2018 at 06:50pm
The National Security Council: A Tool for Decision by Luke Strange – American Enterprise Institute
Key Points
- The United States faces a renewed period of great power competition, and the National Security Council, the principal institution for presidential national security decision-making, needs to be up to the task.
- A disciplined, effective process that is grounded in the NSC’s statutory framework and the lessons of its history can give the president a chance to make good decisions.
- Rather than treating the NSC as a superagency for national security matters, presidents and their staffs should see the NSC for what it is: a powerful tool to help presidents make decisions.
