Quote Originally Posted by John Fishel
Is this the AMU thesis or a paper for an AMU course (and which one if I may ask)?
It's for NSEC503, US National Security.

Quote Originally Posted by John Fishel
So, you have a first task of operationally defining "isolation of the national security elite" in such a way that it can be empirically tested.
I intend to create two categories: 'natural' and 'artificial' insulation. The former is simply a consequence of natural security itself; protecting state secrets, bureaucratic specialization, and general American disinterest in most questions about foreign affairs. The latter waxes and wanes depending who is in charge; transparency and responsiveness to the public, appointments of key officials, and policy implementation.