At age seventy, the National Security Act of 1947 is now well past the normal retirement age, but, like many other Baby Boomers, it is still working full-time. As the Trump revolution unfolds should we expect to see it junked? Even before Trump there were calls to update the fundamental statutory basis for national security decision and implementation, as young up and comers have looked impatiently at the seemingly outmoded attitudes and waning capacities of elders they wish would step aside. The urge to replace is natural for those who focus on blunders in the substance of national security policy …read more
Source: The American Interest
