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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"National Security Council"”.
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United States national security policy under presidents Truman and Eisenhower: the evolving role of the National Security Council
… increased pressure to preserve United States national security. One of its most important responses to this expanding Cold War was the National Security Act. Passed by Congress in July 1947, this legislation established a new, potentially revolutionary, presidential advisory body--the National …
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Le Conseil National de Securite des Etats-Unis : son role, son influence et son utilisation dans l'elaboration de la politique exterieure et de defense americaine (1969-1976)
… it analyses and assesses the performance of the National Security Council as an interdepartmental mechanism shaping policies and counselling the President. It also examines the conditions and factors that hinder the activities of the Council, and explains some of its malfunctions. The …
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TRANSITIONING THAI SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES TO A UNIFIED COMMAND: A STUDY ON ENHANCING COUNTER-HYBRID WARFARE CAPABILITIES
… for conventional forces. Although Thailand’s national security environment has evolved rapidly, the development of SOF has emphasized quantity over quality, particularly in terms of organizational adaptation to emerging hybrid threats. These threats include traditional and irregular challenges …
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Presidential Strategy: Analyzing the National Security Stategies of the United States
… American politicians to reevaluate the nation's security preparedness. This resulted in the National Security Act of 1947, which, among many things, created the National Security Council and an ad hoc system for American strategy-making. The Cold War revealed many of the deficiencies in this …
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Security Cooperation Poorly Defined
<p>Security cooperation is a vital component to the national security of the United States. Despite this fact, insufficient military or academic attention has been applied to the subject. The academic and professional void created by this inattention has led academic, journalistic, and military …
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Was the Decision to Invade Iraq and the Failure of Occupation Planning a Case of Groupthink?
This thesis examines the decision to invade Iraq and the failed planning for the occupation of Iraq. Since Janis introduced groupthink in 1972, the groupthink perspective has been used to explain foreign policy disasters such as the failure to anticipate the Pearl Harbor attack and the Bay of Pigs. …
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Conformity and confirmation: group decision-making in foreign policy
… cases. I collect an original dataset of U.S. National Security Council conversations scraped from transcripts during the Nixon and Ford Administrations. I develop speaker-level and group-level measures for conformity and confirmation using phrase repetition among speakers; I also develop …