The White House is moving forward with a deep staff
reduction within the National Security Council (NSC), a decision that has sparked
debate among former officials, foreign policy experts, and security analysts.
The reduction, which exceeds 100 positions, has raised doubts about whether a
significantly smaller team will be able to cope with an increasingly unstable
international environment, marked by simultaneous crises and decisions that
demand rapid and coordinated responses.
According to sources close to the process, about half of the
approximately 350 members of the NSC are being reassigned. The administration
has defended the measure as a necessary “downsizing” of a structure that, in
its view, had grown too large over the years and become too agile to respond to
the president's current priorities.
The White House argues that the agency had long been
dominated by career diplomats and civil servants, which—according to internal
critics—led to an bloated bureaucracy that was, at times, disconnected from the
presidential agenda. However, external voices warn that the cuts could weaken
the government's ability to coordinate key policies on defense, diplomacy, and
national security, precisely at a time of rising geopolitical tensions.
The adjustment to the NSC presents a central dilemma for the
current administration: how to balance the efficiency and political control of
the security apparatus with the need for a large and experienced team capable
of anticipating risks and managing crises in an increasingly complex global
landscape.
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