National Security Council

For the Turkish National Security Council, see National Security Council (Turkey); for the Israeli NSC, see Israeli National Security CouncilA National Security Council is an executive body which coordinates national security issues and typically includes the heads of departments involved in diplomacy and defense with a small staff. The most famous NSC is the United States National Security Council, but they also exist in Russia, India, and the Republic of China on Taiwan.

In some nations with a history of coup d'etats, a National Security Council allows for the military to institutionally influence policy of a mostly civilian government. This has been the case in Turkey and Pakistan.

The United States National Security Council was also implicated to have organized the Iran-Contra_Affair without approval of the president, and against the wishes and law of the US congress. Therefore, in this case, it may have acted as an independent foreign policy body of the United States.

People's Republic of China

An NSC structure has been controversially proposed for the People's Republic of China to replace the situation in which the People's Liberation Army is controlled by a semi-autonomous Central Military Commission.

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