"People in Iowa were looking for someone who knew national security affairs," he said.

He taught military history, national security affairs, and leadership courses.

That pattern seems to work especially in the case of the men who have advised the President on national security affairs.

He is a historian and a recognized expert on national security affairs.

Such a committee on security affairs thus only serves to protect secrecy.

For the past four, he has served as under secretary of state for arms control and international security affairs.

I really can't discuss security affairs on the phone: we've got to meet - obviously somewhere quiet.

The special assistant to the president for national security affairs was well known to Arbatov.

Assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, 1983-89.

He writes regularly in the international press on global change and international security affairs.