Can President Trump's National Security Council Handle A Real Crisis?

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Loren Dejonge Schuulman, Defense One/The Atlantic: Can Trump’s National Security Council Handle a Real Crisis?

The people in the Situation Room inevitably neglect basics that will keep them, and the rest of us, alive. In this White House, the risks are especially high.

It’s hard to believe, but this administration has not experienced a genuine national-security crisis in more than six months in office.

Yes, missile tests in North Korea and a boiling regional spat in the Middle East are spiking blood pressure across DC, but the most nightmare-inducing risks have originated in the president’s own social-media rhetoric, not the crises themselves. Recent turmoil within the National Security Council has been almost entirely generated by its own members, some of them newly former. While the people in the West Wing protest and sputter in response, let me put it this way: Have they moved their entire professional wardrobe to their file cabinet? Have they purchased underwear on Amazon because they don’t have time for laundry? Have they resignedly given their mothers the number to the White House Situation Room? Are they working late due to physical threats or just because the president tweeted again? Don’t worry, they’ll get their turn, and North Korea and others look more than willing to assist.

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WNU Editor: On paper .... President Trump has chosen people who have a lot of experience in handling crisis .... Generals who experienced war and executives who know how to run large companies. With this experience you would think that they would know how to handle a real crisis. But truth be told .... we will never know until that day happens, and when one looks at the world today .... that day may come sooner than what we think.