PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY THE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES PROGRAM OF THE FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY, HELD APRIL 27-29, 1983.

Britain and the Imperial Staff /Peter Nailor -- General staff : theory and practice from the Tsarist to the Soviet regime / John Erickson -- Soviet decision-making process for national security policy / Harriet Fass Scott -- Contrasting views of the role of strategic (politico-military) doctrine : Soviet and Western approaches / Uri Ra'anan -- Grinding axes : alliance politics and decisions in World War II / John P. Roche -- Defense planning in NATO : a consensual decision-making process / Roy W. stafford -- National Security Council : formalized coordination and policy planning / John E. Endicott -- Policy planning and resource allocations in the U.S. Department of Defense : an outsider's View / Michael Hobkirk -- National security decision making : the State Department's role in developing arms control policy / Christopher M. Lehman -- Specified and unified commands : C3 - problems of centralization / John H. Cushman -- U.S. Senate and the Presidency / William S. Cohen -- Congressional limitations and oversight of executive decision-making power : the influence of the members and of the staff / Richard C. White -- Congress and defense policy making : toward realistic expectations in a system of countervailing parochialisms / Stanley J. Heginbotham -- Media and national defense / S. Robert Lichter & Stanley Rothman -- Government-industry relations and defense decision making / P.A. Phalon -- National security decision making : policy implications / Robert L. Pfalzgraff Jr.