Brzezinski, Scrowcroft: Obama Should Shrink 300-Plus National Security Staff

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PJ Media:

WASHINGTON – Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Carter, and Brent Scowcroft, former national security adviser to Presidents Ford and George H.W. Bush, said President Obama’s national security team should be reduced in size.

 

“Kennedy’s national security adviser had a staff probably just a little larger than the number of deputies to the national security adviser in the present administration,” said Brzezinski during a discussion moderated by David Rothkopf, CEO and editor of the FP Group at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The event was named after his new book titled National Insecurity: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in an Age of Fear.

Brzezinski said his staff, Scowcroft’s staff and Henry Kissinger’s staff were much smaller than the national security team in the Obama administration.

 

“We had staffs roughly in terms of 40, 50 – take a few as senior officers who were responsible for different issues in parts of the world. Today, the NSC staff writ large is well over 300 people – that creates a bureaucracy, which the national security adviser finds difficult to run directly,” Brzezinski said.