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How an Obscure National Security Council Staffer Changed the Balkans

January 24, 2020
How an Obscure National Security Council Staffer Changed the Balkans
How an Obscure National Security Council Staffer Changed the Balkans

How an Obscure National Security Council Staffer Changed the Balkans

John Gans
January 24, 2020

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, John Gans, director of communications and research at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania, gives a talk at the University of Texas at Austin to discusses his book, White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War. In this talk, Gans focuses on the career and the accomplishments of a single NSC staffer, who ultimately perished during his duties in Bosnia. He uses the story of Nelson Drew as a way to illustrate both the power and the process that exists within the NSC. This talk took place at the University of Texas at Austin and was sponsored by the Clements Center.

 

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