NVSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: United States Department Of Defense
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02:06: national security council, president"s intelligence advisory. Board, intelligence oversight board, and white house military. Office = executive office of the president: national command authorities. Modified by goldwater-nichols department of defense reorganization act of. Statuary members = vice president secretary of defense, secretary of. Dni and chairman of jcs are official advisors. Ns act says secretaries and undersecretaries of other executive and military departments can be members of nsc. Nsc staff is headed by civilian executive secretary appointed by president. Assess the objectives and risks of the us in relation to its actual military power. Consider policies of common interests that concern national security. Make recommendations to president on subjects that affect national policy of government. Established by intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act of 2004. Created after wwii to unify military departments under single cabinet-level secretary. Ns act of 1947 created national military establishment (renamed dod by a. Established civilian secretaries for departments of the navy, army, and air.