UNITED STATES: NSC system may need reassessment

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  • Empowering the president
  • Authority and responsibility
  • Presidential discretion
  • Early-model NSC
  • Eisenhower's system
  • Reasoned disagreement
  • Crisis management
  • Testing intelligence and ideas
  • Institutional change
  • No civil servants
  • Serving the president
  • De-emphasis on planning
  • Nixon-era centralisation
  • Increased staff importance
  • Avoiding institutional hazards

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