ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the major features of United States national security organization, summarizes the most salient predicted changes limned by the National Intelligence Council, and presents whether the extant organization seems appropriate for the expected trends. It argues that the present structure seems inadequate to manage the political complexity of the emerging system, that at the margin the current structure privileges military power over diplomacy and that the intelligence community privileges "tactical" intelligence over "strategic". The chapter summarizes key changes expected in the relations among states, and in the relations between states and peoples, and even individuals. The National Security Council was established to ensure that the United States considered carefully the relationship between its national security means and its strategic ends in the world, and to ensure that the contributions of all relevant branches of the government to those objectives would be "integrated".
