United States National Security Advisor

{{short description|White House advisory position}} {{distinguish|Director of the National Security Agency}} {{Use American English|date=December 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox official post | post = Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs | insignia = The White House logo under Trump 2.0.jpg | image = Official portrait of Secretary Marco Rubio.jpg | incumbent = Marco Rubio | incumbentsince = May 1, 2025 | acting = y | department = Executive Office of the President | member_of = National Security Council Homeland Security Council | reports_to = {{flag|President of the United States}} | appointer = President of the United States | constituting_instrument = National Security Presidential Memorandum<ref>{{cite web |title=National Security Presidential Memorandum–4 of April 4, 2017 |url=https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-04-06/pdf/2017-07064.pdf#page=4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407150009/https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-04-06/pdf/2017-07064.pdf |archive-date=2017-04-07 |url-status=live}}</ref> | first = Robert Cutler | formation = 1953 | deputy = Deputy National Security Advisor | website = {{URL|https://wh.gov/nsc}} }} The '''assistant to the president for national security affairs''' ('''APNSA'''), commonly referred to as the '''national security advisor''' ('''NSA'''),<ref name="TNSAaS:1">The National Security Advisor and Staff: p. 1.</ref>{{refn|Abbreviated '''NSA''', or sometimes '''APNSA''' or '''ANSA''' in order to avoid confusion with the abbreviation of the National Security Agency.|group="Note"}} is a senior aide in the Executive Office of the President, based at the West Wing of the White House.<ref name="White House appendix">{{cite web |title=History of the National Security Council, 1947-1997 |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/nsc/history.html |work=whitehouse.gov |date=August 1997 |access-date=September 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100222195523/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/nsc/history.html |archive-date=February 22, 2010 |via=National Archives}}</ref>

The national security advisor serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all national security issues. The national security advisor participates in meetings of the National Security Council (NSC) and usually chairs meetings of the principals committee of the NSC with the secretary of state and secretary of defense (those meetings not attended by the president). The NSA also sits on the Homeland Security Council (HSC). The national security advisor is supported by NSC staff who produce classified research and briefings for the national security advisor to review and present, either to the NSC or the president.

The national security advisor is appointed by the president and does not require confirmation by the United States Senate. An appointment of a three- or four-star general to the role requires Senate confirmation to maintain that rank in the new position.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Portnoy |first=Steven |date=February 21, 2017 |title=McMaster will need Senate confirmation to serve as national security adviser |publisher=CBS News |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcmaster-will-need-senate-confirmation-to-serve-as-national-security-adviser/ |url-status=live |access-date=March 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301015417/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mcmaster-will-need-senate-confirmation-to-serve-as-national-security-adviser/ |archive-date=March 1, 2017}}</ref> The acting national security advisor has been Marco Rubio since May 1, 2025.

==Role== The influence and role of the national security advisor varies from administration to administration and depends not only on the qualities of the person appointed to the position, but also on the style and management philosophy of the incumbent president.<ref name="TNSAaS:17-21">The National Security Advisor and Staff: pp. 17-21.</ref> Ideally, the national security advisor serves as an honest broker of policy options for the president in the field of national security, rather than as an advocate for their own policy agenda.<ref name="TNSAaS:10-14">The National Security Advisor and Staff: pp. 10-14.</ref>

The national security advisor is a staff position in the Executive Office of the President and does not have line or budget authority over either the Department of State or the Department of Defense, unlike the secretary of state and the secretary of defense, who are Senate-confirmed officials with statutory authority over their departments.<ref>See {{UnitedStatesCode|22|2651}} for the Secretary of State and {{UnitedStatesCode|10|113}} for the Secretary of Defense.</ref> The national security advisor is able to offer daily advice (due to the proximity) to the president independently of the vested interests of the large bureaucracies and clientele of those departments.<ref name="TNSAaS:17-21" />

In times of crisis, the national security advisor is likely to operate from the White House Situation Room or the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (as on September 11, 2001),<ref name="clarke18">{{cite book |last=Clarke |first=Richard A. |author-link=Richard A. Clarke |title=Against All Enemies |url=https://archive.org/details/againstallenemie00clar/page/18 |url-access=registration |publisher=Free Press |location=New York |year=2004 |page=[https://archive.org/details/againstallenemie00clar/page/18 18] |isbn=0-7432-6024-4}}</ref> updating the president on the latest events in a crisis situation.

==History== [[File:President Bush meets with General Colin Powell, General Scowcroft, Secretary James Baker, Vice President Quayle... - NARA - 186429.jpg|thumb|left|President George H. W. Bush meets in the Oval Office with his NSC Brent Scowcroft about Operation Desert Shield, 1991. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell are also present in the room.]]

The immediate predecessor to the National Security Council was the National Intelligence Authority (NIA), which was established by President Harry S. Truman's Executive Letter of January 22, 1946, to oversee the Central Intelligence Group, the CIA's predecessor. The NIA was composed of the secretary of state (James F. Byrnes and George C. Marshall), the secretary of war (Robert P. Patterson), the secretary of the Navy (James Forrestal), and a personal representative of President Truman (William D. Leahy, the chief of staff to the commander in chief).<ref>https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/Misc-011.pdf</ref>

The National Security Council was created at the start of the Cold War under the National Security Act of 1947 to coordinate defense, foreign affairs, international economic policy, and intelligence; this was part of a large reorganization that saw the creation of the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency.<ref name=george/><ref name=schmitz>{{cite book |last=Schmitz |first=David F. |title=Brent Scowcroft: Internationalism and Post-Vietnam War American Foreign Policy |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2011 |pages=2–3 |url=https://archive.org/details/brentscowcroftin0000schm|isbn=9780742570405}}</ref> The Act did not create the position of the national security advisor per se, but it did create an executive secretary in charge of the staff.{{Clarify|date=January 2026|reason=The staff of what?}} In 1949, the NSC became part of the Executive Office of the President.<ref name=george>{{cite book |last1=George |first1=Robert Z |last2=Rishikof |first2=Harvey |author2-link=Harvey Rishikof |title=The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth |publisher=Georgetown University Press |url=https://archive.org/details/nationalsecurity0000unse_g4o2|isbn=9781589016989 |year=2011 |page=32}}</ref>

Robert Cutler was the first national security advisor in 1953, and held the job twice, both times during the Eisenhower administration. The system has remained largely unchanged since then, particularly since President John F. Kennedy, with powerful national security advisors and strong staff but a lower importance given to formal NSC meetings. This continuity persists despite the tendency of each new president to replace the advisor and senior NSC staff.<ref name=george/>

President Richard Nixon's national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, enhanced the importance of the role, controlling the flow of information to the president and meeting with him multiple times per day. Kissinger also holds the distinction of serving as national security advisor and secretary of state at the same time from September 22, 1973, until November 3, 1975.<ref name=george/><ref name=schmitz/> He holds the record for longest term of service (2,478 days); Michael Flynn holds the record for shortest term, at just 24 days.

Brent Scowcroft held the job in two non-consecutive administrations: the Ford administration and the George H. W. Bush administration.

==List== {{legend2|{{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}}|Democratic|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend2|{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}|Republican|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} {{legend2|{{party color|Independent (United States)}}|Independent|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}

{|class="toccolours" |{{legend|#E6E6AA|Denotes acting capacity.}} |}

;President's Representative to the National Intelligence Authority {|class="wikitable sortable" !class="unsortable" |Image !colspan=2 |Name !Start !End !Duration !class="unsortable" |Ref(s) !colspan=2 |President |- |75px |style="background: {{party color|Independent (United States)}};" | |{{sortname|William D.|Leahy}} |{{dts|January 22, 1946}} |{{dts|July 26, 1947}} |{{ayd|1946|1|22|1947|7|26}} |<ref>https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/Misc-011.pdf</ref> |style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" | |{{sortname|Harry S.|Truman}} (1945–1953) |}

;Executive Secretaries of the National Security Council {|class="wikitable sortable" !class="unsortable" |Image !colspan=2 |Name !Start !End !Duration !class="unsortable" |Ref(s) !colspan=2 |President |- |75px |style="background: {{party color|Independent (United States)}};" | |{{sortname|Sidney|Souers}} |{{dts|July 26, 1947}} |{{dts|December 21, 1949}} |{{ayd|1947|7|26|1949|12|21}} |<ref name="Truman NSC Files">https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/truman-papers/papers-harry-s-truman-staff-member-and-office-files-national-security-council</ref> |rowspan=2 style="background: {{party color|Democratic Party (United States)}};" | |rowspan=2 |{{sortname|Harry S.|Truman}} (1945–1953) |- |75px |style="background: {{party color|Independent (United States)}};" | |{{sortname|James|Lay|dab=government official}} |{{dts|December 21, 1949}} |{{dts|January 20, 1953}} |{{ayd|1949|12|21|1953|1|20}} ||<ref name="Truman NSC Files"/> |}

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==Further reading== {{Cite book |title = 2009-02: The National Security Advisor and Staff |publisher = WhiteHouseTransitionProject.org |url = http://whitehousetransitionproject.org/resources/briefing/WHTP-2009-02-National%20Security%20Advisor.pdf |date = 2009 |ref = TNSAaS |access-date = March 1, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221719/http://whitehousetransitionproject.org/resources/briefing/WHTP-2009-02-National%20Security%20Advisor.pdf |archive-date = March 3, 2016 |url-status = dead }} * {{cite journal |last1=Falk |first1=Stanley L. |title=The National Security Council Under Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy |journal=Political Science Quarterly |date=1964 |volume=79 |issue=3 |pages=403–434 |doi=10.2307/2145907 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2145907 |jstor=2145907 |access-date= |issn=0032-3195|url-access=subscription }} * {{cite book |editor1-last=George |editor1-first=Robert Z. |editor2-last=Rishikof |editor2-first=Harvey |editor2-link=Harvey Rishikof |title=The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth |date=2017 |publisher=Georgetown University Press |edition=2nd |url=https://www.usaidalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Myers_National-Security-Enterprise-1.pdf |access-date=}} * {{cite journal |last1=Preston |first1=Andrew |title=The Little State Department: McGeorge Bundy and the National Security Council Staff, 1961-65 |journal=Presidential Studies Quarterly |date=2001 |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=635–659 |url=http://www.corwin.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/2960_12psq01.pdf#page=80 |access-date= |doi=10.1111/j.0000-0000.2001.00191.x |issn=1741-5705 |id= |via=www.corwin.com |archive-date=December 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231123525/http://www.corwin.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/2960_12psq01.pdf#page=80 |url-status=dead }}

* {{cite book |last1=Rothkopf |first1=David |title=Running the world: The inside story of the National Security Council and the architects of American power |date=2009 |publisher=PublicAffairs |location= |isbn= |url= |access-date=}}

==External links== * [https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/nsc/ WhiteHouse.gov/NSC]

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