Fateful decisions: inside the national security council/
edited by Karl F. Inderfurth and Loch K. Johnson
- New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- xix, 378 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
The development of political-military consultation in the United States / Ernest R. May -- Postwar organization for national security / Ferdinand Eberstadt -- Legislative debate on the National Security Act of 1947 / U.S. Congress -- The National Security Act of 1947 / U.S. Congress -- The NSC under Truman and Eisenhower /Stanley L. Falk -- effective national security advising : recovering the Eisenhower legacy / Fred I. Greenstein, Richard H. Immerman -- Forging a strategy for survival / Henry M. Jackson -- Organizing for national security / Jackson Subcommittee -- Letter to Jackson Subcommittee / McGeorge Bundy -- Kissinger's apparat / John P. Leacacos -- Presidential directive : NSC-2 / Jimmy Carter -- The National Security Council system after the Cold War / Vincent A. Auger -- National Security presidential directive 1 / George W. Bush -- Forum on the role of a National Security advisor / Woodrow Wilson International Center, Baker Institute -- The NSC advisor : process manager and more / Colin L. Powell -- The lessons of the Iran-Contra affair for National Security policy making / Cecil V. Crabb, Kevin V. Mulcahy -- McGeorge Bundy / Kai Bird -- Henry Kissinger / Marvin Kalb, Bernard Kalb -- Zbigniew Brzezinski / Dom Bonafede -- Brent Scowcraft / David Lauter -- Samuel R. Berger / R.W. Apple -- Condoleezza Rice / Elaine Sciolino -- The Cuban missile crisis / Arthur M. Schlesinger -- The transition from the Cold War / George H.W. Bush, Brent Scowcraft -- Conflict in the Balkans / Eric Moskowitz, Jeffrey S. Lantis -- The war against terrorism / Dan Balz, Bob Woodward -- America's Department of States / Bert A. Rockman -- The NSC staff as rogue elephant / Tower Commission -- Congress and the NSC / Inouye-Hamilton Committee -- Recommendations on organizing for national security / Tower Commission -- The President and the Secretary of State / Theodore C. Sorenson -- A new NSC for a new administration / Ivo H. Daalder, I.M. Destler -- Road map for national security : imperative for change / Hart-Rudman Report.