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Author : John Norton Moore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Legal Structure of Defense Organization written by John Norton Moore and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James R. Locher
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585443987
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Victory On The Potomac written by James R. Locher and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War is waged not only on battlefields. In the mid-1980s a high-stakes political struggle to redesign the relationships among the president, secretary of defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and warfighting commanders in the field resulted in the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. Author James R. Locher III played a key role in the congressional effort to repair a dysfunctional military whose interservice squabbling had cost American taxpayers billions of dollars and put the lives of thousands of servicemen and women at risk. Victory on this front helped make possible the military successes the United States has enjoyed since the passage of the bill and to prepare it for the challenges it must still face.Victory on the Potomac provides the first detailed history of how Congress unified the Pentagon and does so with the benefit of an insider's view. In a fast-paced account that reads like a novel, Locher follows the bill through congressional committee to final passage, making clear that the process is neither abstract nor automatic. His vivid descriptions bring to life the amazing cast of this real-life drama, from the straight-shooting chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Barry Goldwater, to the peevishly stubborn secretary of defense, Caspear Weinberger.Locher's analysis of political maneuvering and bureaucratic infighting will fascinate anyone who has an interest in how government works, and his understanding of the stakes in military reorganization will make clear why this legislative victory meant so much to American military capability. James R. Locher III, a graduate of West Point and Harvard Business School began his career in Washington as an executive trainee in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has worked in the White House, the Pentagon, and the Senate. During the period covered by this book, he was a staff member for the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Since then, he has served as an assistant secretary of defense in the first Bush and the early Clinton administrations. Currently, he works as a consultant and lecturer on defense matters.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
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Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Defense Organization written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Edmonds
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429725639
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Central Organizations Of Defense written by Martin Edmonds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defense and strategic studies traditionally have paid little attention to the structure and administrative context within which policy decisions are made. This volume fills that existing gap, focusing on the principal actors in the defense decisionmaking field, their relationships to one another, and the statutory and legal provisions governing the spheres of responsibility and competence among military, civil, and paramilitary institutions. The book is designed to assist scholars and policymakers in comparative analyses of complex organizations and institutions and to identify similarities and differences among the central administrative structures of the major industrial states. Toward this end, each contributor concentrates on his or her own transnational analysis. The authors are all respected experts on defense issues in their own countries, and their analyses conform to a common framework developed to compare central organizations of defense around the world and to define what states can learn from each other’s experiences and what developments can be expected.
Author : Kathleen H. Hicks
Publisher : CSIS
ISBN 13 : 9780892065288
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)
Download or read book Invigorating Defense Governance written by Kathleen H. Hicks and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2008 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gordon Lederman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313030510
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Reorganizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff written by Gordon Lederman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 is the most important legislation to 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, passes 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. As a result of the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has achieved prominence, but his assignment is somewhat contradictory: the spokesman and thus the advocate for the Commander in Chief, while simultaneously the provider of objective advice to the President. While the act did succeed in strengthening the CINCs' authority and in contributing to the dramatic U.S. achievements in the Gulf War, the air and ground campaigns revealed weaknesses in the CINCs' capability to plan joint operations. In addition, the increased role of the military in ad hoc peacekeeping operations has challenged the U.S. military's current organizational structure for the quick deployment of troops from the various services. Rapid technological advances and post-Cold War strategic uncertainty also complicate the U.S. military's organizational structure.
Author : Mark D. Sherry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Army Command Post and Defense Reshaping 1987-1997 written by Mark D. Sherry and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1983-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book National Security Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack E. Holmes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813182050
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Mood/Interest Theory of American Foreign Policy written by Jack E. Holmes and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952, Frank L. Klingberg's article on introvert and extrovert American foreign policy moods projected an American turn toward introversion in the late 1960s. After this came to pass, Jack Holmes began to develop a theory of how these moods might work in a more specific sense. His mood/interest theory points to a basic conflict between politico-military interests and the foreign policy moods of the American electorate. Holmes presents a pioneering account of the over-whelming impact of public moods on foreign policy. Policy-making structures, executive-legislative relations, presidential personality, pragmatism, moralism, elitism, conservatism, international economics, and humanitarianism are related to the mood/interest pattern. Major points are illustrated with examples from 1776 to the present. Holmes's analysis indicates that American moods are continuing unabated according to past patterns, so that American foreign policy may undergo some surprising changes in the next decade. One of the author's hopes is that emphasis on the importance of national moods will help avoid future extremes. This book is bold in its assertions and points to major problems in the analysis of American foreign policy. Whether or not the reader agrees with the entire analysis, he or she will be challenged to think about American foreign policy in new and perhaps revealing ways.
Author : Thomas P. Coakley
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788111159
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book C3I written by Thomas P. Coakley and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 524 pages
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Download or read book Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark D. Sherry
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 0160867266
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Army Command Post and Defense Reshaping 1987-1997 written by Mark D. Sherry and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Army underwent a decade of significant transformation between 1987 and 1997 that affected strategy, force requirements, structure, and basing requirements. The end of the Cold War provided the initial impetus for defense reshaping and drove the pace and depth of change. Reductions in forces and installations, and deferred procurement of the next generation of military equipment overlapped with efforts to adapt the Army to a new global security environment.
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Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Special Bibliography Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States Air Force Academy. Library
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Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Special Bibliography Series written by United States Air Force Academy. Library and published by . This book was released on 195? with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Coltrin Keefer
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Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Harold Brown written by Edward Coltrin Keefer and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Secretary of Defense Harold Brown worked to counter the Soviet Union's growing military strength during the administration of President Jimmy Carter. The Soviet Union of the Carter years came closest to matching the United States in strategic power than at any other point in the Cold War. By most reckonings, the Kremlin surpassed the West in conventional arms and forces in Central Europe, posing a threat to NATO. In response, Brown--a nuclear physicist--advocated more technologically advanced weapon systems but faced Carter's efforts to reign in the defense budget. Backed by the JCS, the national security adviser, and key members of Congress, Brown persuaded Carter to increase the defense budget for the last two years of his term. The secretary championed the development and production of new weapons such as stealth aircraft, precision-guided bombs, and cruise missiles. These and other initiatives laid a solid foundation for the much-acclaimed Ronald Reagan defense revolution that actually began under Carter. The book also highlights Brown's policymaking efforts and his influence on President Carter as the administration responded to international events such as the Middle East peace process, the Iran revolution and hostage crisis, the rise of militant Islam, negotiations with the Soviets over arms limitations, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the creation of a security framework for the Persian Gulf region. Other topics cover policy toward Latin America and Africa. The book is also a history of the Defense Department, including the continual development of the All-Volunteer Force and the organizational changes that saw improved policy formulation and acquisition decisions."--Provided by publisher.+
Author : Peter D. Feaver
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674263359
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Armed Servants written by Peter D. Feaver and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do civilians control the military? In the wake of September 11, the renewed presence of national security in everyday life has made this question all the more pressing. In this book, Peter Feaver proposes an ambitious new theory that treats civil-military relations as a principal-agent relationship, with the civilian executive monitoring the actions of military agents, the "armed servants" of the nation-state. Military obedience is not automatic but depends on strategic calculations of whether civilians will catch and punish misbehavior. This model challenges Samuel Huntington's professionalism-based model of civil-military relations, and provides an innovative way of making sense of the U.S. Cold War and post-Cold War experience--especially the distinctively stormy civil-military relations of the Clinton era. In the decade after the Cold War ended, civilians and the military had a variety of run-ins over whether and how to use military force. These episodes, as interpreted by agency theory, contradict the conventional wisdom that civil-military relations matter only if there is risk of a coup. On the contrary, military professionalism does not by itself ensure unchallenged civilian authority. As Feaver argues, agency theory offers the best foundation for thinking about relations between military and civilian leaders, now and in the future.
