Creation of a National Security Council Board for Low Intensity Conflict

In the spring of 1981 I designed and taught what I considered, at the time, a "high risk" seminar for seventeen junior and senior political science majors. There were to be no textbooks, no lectures, no examinations and no term papers, those hallmarks of the traditional college course. Nevertheless, when the thirteen week course was over, the students were exhausted and claimed that they had never worked so hard in their college careers.The adventure that my students (and I) undertook was a semester long simulation of the United States National Security Council (NSC), dealing with actual global events as they happened. As Washington dealt with a problem, we dealt with the same problem. The simulation was initially offered during the deteriorating situation in Iran and instability in the Gulf region.

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Staffing the National Security Council: How Presidential Management Styles Shape the Composition of the NSC

Presidential Studies Quarterly ◽

10.1111/psq.12723 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Dean LaGattuta ◽

Scott Limbocker

Keyword(s):

National Security ◽

Security Council ◽

National Security Council ◽

Management Styles ◽

Presidential Management

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Le Conseil national de sécurité et la politique sud-africaine des États-Unis de 1969 à 1976.

Études internationales ◽

10.7202/701273ar ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 657-690 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Charles David

Keyword(s):

National Security ◽

Security Council ◽

Policy Making ◽

National Security Council ◽

The Impact ◽

Presidential Decisions ◽

The U.S

This article examines the performance of the U.S. National Security Council as a policy-making body vis-à-vis the southern African conflict under the Nixon and Ford Administrations. It discusses and verifies the hypothesis that the institutionalized System of the NSC gives the President a way of seriously improving his policies, by analyzing (within a structured and formalized framework) the range of options and alternatives, free of negative bureaucratic influences. Furthermore, it shows the impact that the presidential decisions had over the orientation of the southern African conflict from 1969 to 1976.

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