What’s more, according to Mr. Trump’s plans for the National Security Council, neither the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer

What’s more, according to Mr. Trump’s plans for the National Security Council, neither the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer<br />and the president’s primary military adviser, nor the director of national intelligence, the president’s primary intelligence adviser, will be a permanent member of the council’s “principals committee,” a core group responsible for formulating policy.<br />The Trump White House insists that the new organizational structure does not downgrade the<br />roles of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs or the director of national intelligence.<br />In his first weeks in office, President Trump has outlined plans to reorganize the White House’s National Security Council.<br />President George W. Bush’s council, on which I served from 2007 through 2009 as<br />chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, was arranged similarly to Mr. Trump’s.