Manual

 

Background Reading:

Primary Sources
President’s Special Review Board, The Tower Commission Report (1987)

Ronald Reagan, “Implementation of the Recommendations of the President’s Special Review Board,” National Security Decision Direction (NSDD) 266, March 31, 1987, available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsdd/index.html

George H.W. Bush, “Organization of the National Security Council System,” National Security Directive (NSD) 1, January 30, 1989, available at:  http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/pdfs/nsd/nsd1.pdf

William Clinton, “Organization of the National Security Council,” Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 2, January 20, 1993, available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd/pdd-2.htm

George W. Bush, “Organization of the National Security Council System,” National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD) 1, February 13 2001, available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/nspd-1.htm

Jim Jones, “Remarks at 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy,” February 9, 2009, available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/RemarksByNationalSecurityAdviserJonesAt45thMunichConferenceOnSecurityPolicy/

Barack Obama, “Organization of the National Security Council System,” Presidential Policy Directive (PDD) 1, February 13 2009,
available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/ppd-1.pdf

Secondary Sources
Cody Brown, The National Security Council: A Legal History of the President’s Most Powerful Advisers (Project on National Security Reform, 2008), available at: http://pnsr.org/data/images/the%20national%20security%20council.pdf

Ivo Daalder and I.M. Destler, In the Shadow of the Oval Office: Profiles of the National Security Advisers and the Presidents They Served – From JFK to George W. Bush (Simon and Schuster, 2009).

Karl Inderfurth and Loch Johnson (eds.), Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council (Oxford University Press, 2004).

David Rothkopf, Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power (Public Affairs, 2005).

Alan Whittaker, Frederick Smith, Elizabeth McKune, The National Security Policy Process: The National Security Council and Interagency System (Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, 2008), available at: http://ndu.edu/icaf/publication/nsc/docs/icaf-nsc-policy-process-report-....