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White House Warriors - How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War (Hardcover)
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Since its founding more than seventy years ago, the National
Security Council has exerted more influence on the president's
foreign policy decisions-and on the nation's conflicts abroad-than
any other institution or individual. And yet, until the explosive
Trump presidency, few Americans could even name a member. "A
must-read for anyone interested in how Washington really works"
(Ivo H. Daalder), White House Warriors finally reveals how the NSC
evolved from a handful of administrative clerks to, as one recent
commander-in-chief called them, the president's "personal band of
warriors." When Congress originally created the National Security
Council in 1947, it was intended to better coordinate foreign
policy after World War II. Nearly an afterthought, a small
administrative staff was established to help keep its papers
moving. President Kennedy was, as John Gans documents, the first to
make what became known as the NSC staff his own, selectively hiring
bright young aides to do his bidding during the disastrous Bay of
Pigs operation, the fraught Cuban Missile Crisis, and the deepening
Vietnam War. Despite Kennedy's death and the tragic outcome of some
of his decision, the NSC staff endured. President Richard Nixon
handed the staff's reigns solely to Henry Kissinger, who, given his
controlling instincts, micromanaged its work on Vietnam. In the
1980s, President Ronald Reagan's NSC was cast into turmoil by
overreaching staff members who, led by Oliver North, nearly brought
down a presidency in the Iran-Contra scandal. Later, when President
George W. Bush's administration was bitterly divided by the Iraq
War, his NSC staff stepped forward to write a plan for the Surge in
Iraq. Juxtaposing extensive archival research with new interviews,
Gans demonstrates that knowing the NSC staff's history and its war
stories is the only way to truly understand American foreign
policy. As this essential account builds to the swift removals of
advisors General Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon in 2017, we see the
staff's influence in President Donald Trump's still chaotic
administration and come to understand the role it might play in its
aftermath. A revelatory history written with riveting DC insider
detail, White House Warriors traces the path that has led us to an
era of American aggression abroad, debilitating fights within the
government, and whispers about a deep state conspiring against the
public.
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