The decision, it turns out, was a unilateral move by the Pentagon championed by its policy chief Elbridge Colby. The official goal of the review is to see if the pact, AUKUS, which involves selling ...

The United States supports creating two new permanent U.N. Security Council seats for African states, ... so the council functions. There are some areas we don't function on, but the council, ...

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are continuing to overhaul the National Security Council and shift its main functions to other agencies like the State and Defense ...

“On the National Security Council we will serve four primary functions,” Flynn said. “We will advise the president on national security issues, we will formulate national security policy in ...

The Trump administration on Friday fired roughly half the National Security Council as part of a radical restructuring of that body’s structures and functions.

The 1947 National Security Act created the NSC but provided a vague mandate for organization and function. Over time, presidents have used this ambiguity to wield the NSC as they see fit.

Most countries at the UN are raising alarms about Russia's invasion, but since Russia is a permanent Security Council member, it's hard to hold it to account in the world body.

THOMAS-GREENFIELD: Look, the Security Council, as it exists today, does not represent the reality of today. When the council was set up 70 years ago, there were only two countries on the continent ...

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