{"id":1313,"date":"2013-07-24T18:27:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T22:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clementscenter.org\/organizing-the-nsc-i-like-ike-s\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:07:18","slug":"organizing-the-nsc-i-like-ike-s","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.clementscenter.org\/press\/organizing-the-nsc-i-like-ike-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizing the NSC: I Like Ike’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
Abstract: The United States\u2019 national security establishment lacks an integrated strategic planning capability. The current National Security Council (NSC) system relies heavily on part-time committees that lack the clout and time to execute strategic planning. The president could overcome this difficulty by looking to President Eisenhower’s NSC system. Eisenhower’s NSC relied on a Planning Board\u2014which was neither a part-time committee nor fulltime staff\u2014to get realistic planning that was not captive to parochial interests and to foster a national, strategic mindset without falling prey to an ivory-tower mind-set divorced from reality. <\/p>\n