Status Updates From The National Security Enter...

I hate that this is what my Currently Reading looks like but I am for real reading all of these books for school.

Chapter 1 was surprisingly interesting for a bit of a bland topic.

Chapter 2 even better. It is a good summary of the different administrations and how their NSC looked like.

Perplexing that in the wake of the WMD intelligence scandal that the government pushed forward with centralizing control of the whole intelligence apparatus, thus tightening control over any possible dissenting voice. Moreover it also tied intelligence analysis even closer with policy maker preferences, another huge problem with the WMD analysis.

Francis Fukuyama's "Political Order and Political Decay" on the balance between political patronage and a professional civil service and Dale Herspring's "Pentagon and the Presidency" meshes well with the description of OSD and the military here, as well as the chapter on the National Security Council & Dept of State.