Joint Chiefs of Staff

Joint Chiefs of Staff - U.S. statutory agency, created in 1949 within the Dept. of Defense. The chairman is the principal military adviser to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. Members include the chairman, appointed by the President with Senate approval; the chief of staff, U.S. army; the chief of naval operations; the chief of staff, U.S. air force; the Read More...

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The Reorganization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: A Critical Analysis
by Allan R. Millett. 81 pgs.

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Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc.: In Association with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

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Preface

Summary Overview

The Organizational Impact of Military Success and Failure: An Historical Perspective By *

Executive and Legislative Influence On U.S. National Security Policy

The Jcs Deliberate Planning Process By , Usmc (ret.)

Jcs Reorganization: Why Change? How Much Change?

Reform of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

An Annotated Bibliography for the Study Of American Military Organization and History
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Reorganizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff: The Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986
by Gordon Nathaniel Lederman. 218 pgs.

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The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 is the most important legislation affecting U.S. national defense in the last 50 years. This act resulted from frustration in Congress and among certain military officers concerning what they believed to be the poor quality of military advice available to civilian decision-makers. It also derived from the U.S. military's perceived inability to conduct successful "joint" or multi-service operations. The Act, passed after four years of legislative debate, designated the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the principal military advisor to the President and sought to foster greater cooperation among the military services. Goldwater-Nichols marks the latest attempt to balance competing tendencies within the Department of Defense, namely centralization versus decentralization and geographic versus functional distributions of power.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Military Studies

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Foreword

Preface

Note on the Terminology and Structure of the U.S. Military

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Inherent Tensions in American Military Organization

Chapter 2: Defense Reorganization: a Substantive Analysis

Chapter 3: The Great Reorganization Debate

Chapter 4: Passage of the Goldwater- Nichols Act

Chapter 5: The U.S. Military After Goldwater-Nichols

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS, and NSC
by Amy B. Zegart. 317 pgs.

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Zegart (policy studies, School of Public Policy and Social Research at UCLA) challenges the belief that national security agencies are well designed to serve the national interest. Using a new institutionalist approach, she asks what forces shaped the design of the CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council. She finds that blame can be ascribed to features of American democracy which limit presidential power and give Congress little incentive to create an effective foreign policy system.

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Toward a Theory of National Security Agencies

Chapter 2: Origins of the National Security Council System: a "Brass-Knuckle Fight to the Finish"

Chapter 3: Evolution of the National Security Council System: "From King's Ministers to Palace Guard"

Chapter 4: Origins of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Fighting for the Very Life of the Navy"

Chapter 5: Evolution of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "The Swallows Return to Capistrano"

Chapter 6: Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency: "Those Spooky Boys"

Chapter 7: Evolution of the Central Intelligence Agency: "One of the Weakest Links in Our National Security"

Chapter 8: Conclusion

Appendixes

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Exigencies of Global, Integrated Warfare: The Evolving Role of the CJCS and His Dedicated Staff
by Michael S. Bell. 32 pgs.

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Who Makes Public Policy?: The Struggle for Control between Congress and the Executive (Chap. 9 "Improving Military Coordination: The Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization of the Department of Defense")
by Diana Evans, Robert S. Gilmour, Alexis A. Halley. 390 pgs.

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Who Makes Public Policy?: The Struggle for Control Between Congress and the Executive

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

I the Struggle for Control of Policy and Program Development

Part One Domestic Issues: Transportation, Energy, Environment, Health

2 Accelerating Implementation: the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System

3 Reconciling Pork-Barrel Politics and National Transportation Policy: Highway Demonstration Projects

4 "Not in My Back Yard": High-Level Nuclear Waste Policy

5 Hazardous Waste Disposal: the Double-Edged Sword of the Rcra Land-Ban Hammers

6 Making Up for Lost Time: the Defense Nuclear Weapons Complex Cleanup

7 Battling for Budgetary Savings: the Prospective Payment System for Hospitals Under Medicare

Part Two Defense Issues

8 Producing a Reliable Weapons System: the Advanced Medium‐ Range Air-To-Air Missile (amraam)

9 Improving Military Coordination: the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization of the Department of Defense

Part Three Foreign Affairs Issues

10 Resolving Policy Differences: Foreign Aid and Human Rights

Ii Interjecting Constituency Concerns: Foreign Military Arms Sales

Conclusion

12 Co-Managing Policy and Program Development

Selected Bibliography

Index
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The U. S. Military: Ready for the New World Order? (Chap. Three "The U. S. Joint Strategic Planning Process")
by John E. Peters. 182 pgs.

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Will current strategic planning give the United States the sort of military capabilities needed to counter threats likely in the future? Using first-hand experience at the Pentagon and an Army background, Lieutenant Colonel Peters outlines serious problems, offers fresh insights into the defense planning process, surveys the global security environment in this post-Cold War era, and makes suggestions for developing an optimal force structure for the year 2000. This risk and consequences assessment, alongside case studies of the Gulf War and other situations, shows the inner workings of the Defense Department and departs from recent literature on military reform.

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Recent Titles In Contributions in Military Studies

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Figures and Tables

Preface

Chapter One Global Politics And Influences for Change

Notes

Chapter Two Operating Security Framework for the Year 2000

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Chapter Three The U.S. Joint Strategic Planning Process

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Chapter Four Military Requirements: A New Approach to Force Development

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Chapter Five Developing Forces for The Year 2000

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Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950 ("Purposes of the Joint Chiefs of Staff" begins on p. 47, and "The Joint Chiefs and Civilians" begins on p. 232)
by Arthur B. Darling. 514 pgs.

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Publisher's Note

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Preface

I: Origins in War

II: Plans in Peacetime

III: The Central Intelligence Group: Beginnings Under Souers

IV: The Central Intelligence Group

V: Action by Congress, 1947-1949

VI: Hillenkoetter's Administration: Intelligence

VII: Hillenkoetter's Administration: Covert Operations

VIII: Investigation, 1948-1949

IX: Change, 1949-1950

X: Decisions, 1950

Appendix A: Chronology

Appendix B: Memoranda on the Historical Review Program

Index
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American Civil-Military Decisions ("Towards an Occupation Directive: The First Revision of JCS 1067" begins on p. 389, and "The Final Revision of JCS 1067" begins on p. 428)
by Harold Stein. 705 pgs.

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Introduction

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The Far Eastern Crisis of 1931-1932: Stimson, Hoover and the Armed Services

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Bibliographic Note

Notes

Editorial Comments

The Helium Controversy

Contents

Bibliographic Note

Notes

Editorial Comments

Birth and Death of the M-Day Plan

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Bibliographic Note

Notes

Editorial Comments

Aid to Russia: the First Year

Contents

Bibliographic Note

Notes

Editorial Comments

The United States Fleet: Diplomacy, Strategy and the Allocation of Ships (1940-1941)

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Bibliographic Note

Notes

Editorial Comments

The Italian Armistice

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Note on Time

Foreword

Appendix A: The Short Terms

Appendix B: The Long Terms

Acknowledgments

Bibliographic Note

Notes

Editorial Comments

Directives for the Occupation of Germany: the Washington Controversy

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Foreword

Bibliographic Note

Notes

Editorial Comments

Super Carriers and B-36 Bombers: Appropriations, Strategy and Politics

Contents

Bibliographic Note

Notes

Editorial Comments

To the Yalu and Back

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Chronology of Major Events

Preface

Acknowledgments

Bibliographic Note

Notes

Editorial Comments

The American Decision to Rearm Germany

Contents

Bibliographic Note

Notes

Editorial Comments

Bases in Spain

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Introduction

VII: Epilogue

Bibliographic Note

Notes

Editorial Comments
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Clinton's Warriors the Interventionists, in World Policy Journal
by Robert Worth. 6 pgs.

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Gen. Colin L. Powell: The World's Most Powerful Soldier, in Ebony
by Laura B. Randolph. 4 pgs.

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