National Security and the New Presidential Transition
“2008-2009 Presidential Transition: National Security Considerations and Options,” discusses historical national-security related presidential transition activities, provides a representative sampling of national security issues the next administration may encounter, and offers considerations and options relevant to each of the five phases of the presidential transition period.
“Organizing the U.S. Government for National Security: Overview of the Interagency Reform Debates,” discusses the ‘outdated bureaucratic superstructure’ of the 20th century as an inadequate basis for protecting the nation from 21st century security challenges and is intended “to help frame the emerging debates by taking note of the leading advocates for change, highlighting identified shortcomings in key elements of the current system, and describing categories of emerging proposals for change.”
