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• 4th Infantry Division (U.S.) [r]: An active modular division of the United States Army, a "heavy" division known as the "Ivy Division" for its insignia, four ivy leaves on a diamond field, primarily headquartered at Fort Hood, Texas. ^[e]
• Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs [r]: Principal White House staff adviser on foreign policy and defense matters to the President of the United States, usually coordinating the major agencies; statutory member of the National Security Council and the chief of its staff; the incumbent is James L. Jones ^[e]
• Belfer Center [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bob Woodward [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Brookings Institution [r]: Generally considered neutral in its overall output, a large think tank in Washington, D.C. ^[e]
• CIA activities in Iraq [r]: Add brief definition or description
• CIA activities in Nicaragua [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Center for a New American Security [r]: A fairly new national security think tank, the founders of which are now in the Obama administration; some of the new senior members have significant field counterinsurgency experience ^[e]
• Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. ^[e]
• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [r]: The senior member of the uniformed services of the United States, statutory senior military adviser to the President and Secretary of Defense; currently Admiral Mike Mullen; policy developer and adviser not in the operational chain of command ^[e]
• Christopher Hill (U.S. diplomat) [r]: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq as of April 2009, following service as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; he was chief US negotiator at the Six-Party Talks over North Korean nuclear weapons ^[e]
• Clandestine human-source intelligence and covert action [r]: Intelligence and military special operations functions that either should be completely secret (i.e., clandestine: the existence of which is not known outside the relevant government circles), or simply cannot be linked to the sponsor (i.e., covert: it is known that sabotage is taking place, but its sponsor is unknown). ^[e]
• Clandestine human-source intelligence [r]: clandestine operations by people who secretly collect intelligence, and their support by couriers, forgers, radio operators, and other operational personnel. ^[e]
• Coalition Provisional Authority [r]: The initial U.S. civilian governmental body, carrying out, in Iraq, the role of Occupying Power as defined in the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions ^[e]
• Cold War [r]: Geostrategic, economic and ideological struggle from about 1947 to 1991 between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. ^[e]
• 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]
• Council on Foreign Relations [r]: An influential "think tank", publisher, and facilitator of communications in international relations; based in the US but with an international membership and not associated with a specific ideology ^[e]
• Dau tranh [r]: A term of art used in Vietnamese Communist revolutionary war theory, roughly translated to "struggle", and having components of political action, guerrilla warfare, and psychological warfare. ^[e]
• David Wurmser [r]: A neoconservative specialist in Middle East policy, who advised Dick Cheney, John Bolton and Douglas Feith in the George W. Bush Administration, as well as writing extensively in favor of interventionist policies in the region; ; advisory board, U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon; co-founder, Middle Eastern Media Review Institute ^[e]
• Dean Acheson [r]: An American diplomat (1893-1971) primarily responsible for shaping foreign policy during the Truman administration and early Cold War. ^[e]
• Dennis Ross [r]: Special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director of the Central Region on the National Security Council staff, who has served in the Carter, George W. Bush, Reagan and Clinton Administrations; Aspen Strategy Group, Aspen Institute; former Ziegler Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Board of Editors, Middle East Quarterly ^[e]
• Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change [r]: A group of civilian and military U.S. officials critical of the foreign policy of the George W. Bush Administration at the time of the 2004 election, before the Iraq War, Surge ^[e]
• Douglas Feith [r]: An American strategic analyst, associated with neoconservatism, who held posts including Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2001-2005, when he advised Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War; fellow of the Hudson Institute ^[e]
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• Joint Chiefs of Staff [r]: Add brief definition or description
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• Lyndon B. Johnson [r]: Add brief definition or description
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• National Interest (magazine) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Security Act of 1947 [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Norman Podhoretz [r]: Add brief definition or description
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