The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth
"Rooted in decades of professional practice,The National Security Enterpriseprovides an insightful survey of the organizational cultures in our national security architecture that will serve as an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand key players as they construct US national security policy." --Graham Allison, director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and author ofNuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe"The National Security Enterpriseapproaches the national security policymaking process from every imaginable angle -- the intelligence community, the Congress, the State Department, the military, think tanks, lobbies, and much more. This volume's comprehensiveness is remarkable, surpassed only by the erudition of its authors, who are perfectly suited to lead the reader through the many twists and turns of how America formulates its foreign policy." --Lee H. Hamilton, president and director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars"Roger George and Harvey Rishikof have assembled a superb team of practitioners and academics, and the result is the most comprehensive analysis yet available of the system by which the United States makes its national security decisions. Especially insightful are the dysfunctions in the current system and the potential remedies to them. This book is essential reading for those concerned with U.S. national security decisionmaking." --Robert Art, Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations, Brandeis University"This valuable contribution of insightful essays offers a distinctive contribution by analyzing the role of law in the functioning of the national security enterprise." --William E. Nelson, Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law and professor of history, New York University