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Parent topics
- President of the United States of America [r]: Head of state and government of the United States of America; elected through an electoral college and responsible for appointing Federal judges and senior officials of the executive branch, subject to Senate confirmation [e]
- National Security Act of 1947 [r]: Core of legislation that restructured the U.S. military from its traditional structure of a separate Army and Navy, creating the United States Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the predecessor to the U.S. Department of Defense [e]
- National Security Council [r]: Both the senior foreign policy committee of principal officers of the executive branch of the United States of America, chaired by the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, and, by extension, the professional staff reporting to the Assistant [e]
Subtopics
- Zbigniew Brzezinski [r]: Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; member, international advisory board, Atlantic Council; board, International Crisis Group; advisor, Partnership for a Secure America; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for Jimmy Carter [e]
- McGeorge Bundy [r]: Harvard University professor and dean who became Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Administrations between 1961-1966. [e]
- Frank Carlucci [r]: U.S. Secretary of Defense and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for Ronald Reagan; Deputy Director of Central Intelligence; served in a variety of subcabinet posts in Republican and Democratic administrations after working as a Foreign Service Officer; Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies [e]
- Gordon Gray [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stephen Hadley [r]: Director, Atlantic Council; Deputy to Condaleeza Rice, and then Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the George W. Bush Administration [e]
- James Jones [r]: Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration, he is a retired United States Marine Corps general, whose last active duty assignment was NATO military and United States European Command senior officer; previously Commandant of the Marine Corps [e]
- Henry Kissinger [r]: (1923—) American academic, diplomat, and simultaneously Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration; promoted realism (foreign policy) and détente with China and the Soviet Union; shared 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War; Director, Atlantic Council [e]
- Robert McFarlane [r]: Member, Committee for the Present Danger; Board of advisers, American Foreign Policy Council; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs to Ronald Reagan; advisor, Partnership for a Secure America [e]
- John Poindexter [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Colin Powell [r]: A retired general in the United States Army who served in high political office, first African-American to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State; minimally partisan although he considered himself a moderate Republican, not a neoconservative [e]
- Condoleeza Rice [r]: Academic political scientist, then Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and U.S. Secretary of State in the George W. Bush Administration [e]
- Brent Scowcroft [r]: Director, Atlantic Council; Chairman, Scowcroft Group; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs for Gerald Ford; Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; retired lieutenant general, U.S. Air Force [e]
Other related topics
- Assistant to the Vice President of the United States for National Security Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy [r]: A 2006 book by Francis Fukuyama, examining the role of neoconservatism in American foreign policy, its execution by the George W. Bush Administration, and a proposed evolved political philosophy to replace it [e]
- John Brennan [r]: Counterterrorism and intelligence adviser to President Barack Obama [e]
- Policy Planning Staff [r]: An organization in the U.S. Department of State, principally assisting the Secretary with long-term planning, liaison with outside experts, and bringing dissenting views to high-level officials [e]
- Robert McNamara [r]: A specialist in quantitative management who became president of the Ford Motor Company, but was quickly nominated as Secretary of Defense, becoming a major architect of policy, especially for the Vietnam War, in the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations. [e]
- Mowaffak al-Rubaie [r]: National Security Adviser of Iraq, called an "honest messenger" during the transitional government process, now dealing with regional agreement [e]
