Download or read book Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act written by Malcolm Quinn and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after its enactment, Congress has undertaken a review of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act (GNA) as well as the broader organisation and structure of the contemporary Department of Defense (DOD) more broadly. Most observers agree that in principle a comprehensive review of the Goldwater-Nichols legislation is warranted at this juncture. Further, a broad consensus appears to exist among observers that DOD must become considerably more agile while retaining its strength in order to enable the United States to meet a variety of critical emerging national security challenges. Agreement seemingly ends there. There appears to be little consensus on what should be changed within DOD and what specific direction reform ought to take. Discussions have begun to coalesce around a number of proposals, including reforming defense acquisition processes, further strengthening the Joint Staff, reducing Pentagon staffs, and better empowering the services in the joint arena. Ideas vary, however, on how, specifically, to achieve those outcomes. Disagreement also exists as to whether or not reorganising DOD alone will be sufficient. Some observers maintain that a reform of the broader interagency system on national security matters is needed. This book is intended to assist Congress as it evaluates the variety of reform proposals currently under discussion around Washington.
Download or read book The Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act written by A. James Diehl and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implementation of the Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 written by Katherine Lemay Brown and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act (GNA) of 1986 was the most sweeping legislation related to the Department of Defense (DoD) organizational reform after World War II. With an overarching objective of enhancing "jointness", unifying the direction of the armed forces under joint doctrine and policies for the employment of multi-service military forces, throughout the DoD, the practical purpose was to improve warfighting capabilities. This legislation was based upon implicit assumptions about threats and organizational needs which many feel have since changed. This report focuses on the joint officer personnel management aspects of the GNA legislation and on how officer personnel management has evolved as a result of the mandates of the Act. As currently administered, DoD predicts that it is nearing a time of reporting non-compliance with certain provisions of the law. In addition, DoD finds that the law prevents the recording of some significant joint experiences for certain officers, and that the law prevents the utilization of technological advances in distributive and distance learning in association with joint professional military education. The report offers options for congressional consideration which would continue the status quo, would allow for changes in the law to maintain the progress in joint officer management which was originally envisioned, or would allow for additional study. This report will not be updated.
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.
Download or read book The Goldwater Nichols Act and the Joint Duty Promotion Requirement written by Michael C. Veneri and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, several changes were instituted by Congress in an effort to reform the U.S. military. Title IV, Joint Officer Management, of the Act was aimed at reforming the officer development of the services in an effort to eliminate the parochial service dispositions that had previously plagued U.S. military efforts. Title IV instituted policies to provide officers with joint education and joint experience in an effort to develop officers with a multi-service or joint perspective. In an effort to provide senior officers with joint experience, all officers promoted to the rank of brigadier general or rear admiral (07) must have completed a joint duty assignment prior to promotion. This dissertation looks specifically at the joint duty promotion requirement instituted under Title IV in an effort to analyze the U.S. military's ability to implement a congressional mandate. The implementation of the joint duty assignment as a promotion requirement has been a source of concern for both the services and congressional policymakers.
Download or read book Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 Should the General Staff Debate be Over written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goldwater-Nicholas Reorganization Act of 1986 was the most sweeping legislation related to DOD reform since the enabling legislation following World War II. Its de jure purpose, inter alia, was to enhance the legal authority of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the unified commanders. Its practical purpose was to improve U.S. warfighting capability. As one might expect, implementation has been controversial in terms of shifting power from the Services to the Joint Staff and the CINCs, particularly as interpreted by the Joint Staff. It is worth noting the Joint Staff remained an organization which assists the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs vice transitioning to a general staff. Many point to the warfighting success of Desert Shield/Desert Storm as conclusive proof that Goldwater-Nicholas achieved its purpose. However, DOD is now entering a period of unsettled reshuffling of budget priorities as Congress and the President struggle with balancing the U.S. budget. This will undoubtedly mean far fewer resources, both dollars and people, for DOD as a whole. Goldwater-Nicholas was enacted under implicit assumptions about strategic threats and organizational needs of the U.S. military (e.g., the Soviet Union was still a viable political entity in 1986). This paper explores whether Goldwater-Nicholas went far enough in its reform efforts, particularly considering the increasing importance of military operations other than war and the inevitable pressures to further reduce the military budget. It focuses on relationships and divisions of labor between the Joint, Service, and CINC staffs.
Download or read book Improving Military Coordination written by Thomas L. McNaugher and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 written by Christopher Allan Yuknis and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 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 affect the military establishment of the United States since 1947. In passing the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Congress intended, to strengthen the powers of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Commanders of the Unified and Specified Commands at the expense of the Service Chiefs and the Military Departments, and to improve the quality and timeliness of military advice. This paper makes an interim assessment regarding how well Congressional intent has been achieved. While the vast majority of defense experts, senior military officers, and staff planners believe passage of the Act has increased the quality and timeliness of military advice, there remain some lingering concerns which this paper explores.
Download or read book The Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act written by Malcolm Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE GOLDWATER NICHOLS DOD REORGANIZATION ACT A TEN YEAR RETROSPECTIVE U S DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE written by National Defense University and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goldwater Nichols Revisited written by Peter W. Chiarelli and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 (Goldwater-Nichols) is frequently praised by civilian national security specialists and military leaders as correcting the organizational and structural deficiencies stemming from the National Security Act of 1947. Critics charge that prior to Goldwater-Nichols the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) were unable to adequately fulfill their responsibility to provide pragmatic and timely unified military advice to the President, National Security Council, and/or Secretary of Defense-collectively referred to as the National Command Authorities (NCA). This caused the NCA to rely on civilian staffs for advice that should have been provided by professional military officers. Those calling for defense reform cited the conflict of interest inherent in the dual responsibilities of the Service Chiefs. Furthermore, they charged that the Service Chiefs did not have sufficient time to perform both roles; i.e., head of their Service and member of the jcs. Goldwater-Nichols made the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (CJCS) the principal military advisor to the NCA. No longer was the CJCS required to formally ask for, and receive, input from the Service Chiefs before answering a question posed by the NCA. Additionally, this major defense reorganization empowered the Commanders of Unified and Specified Commands (CinCs) and instituted a formalized joint officer personnel policy law (Title IV). The Joint Staff was enlarged and strengthened to support the expanded role of the Chairman and the CinCs. Incentives were legislated to force the Services to assign quality officers to joint duty assignments. To the disappointment of those supporting radical reform, Goldwater-Nichols did not end dual hatting, create a General Staff, and abolish the JCS. For traditionalists, reform cost the Service Chiefs and Staffs their preeminent role in defense policy formulation.
Download or read book Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 September 12 1986 Ordered to be Printed written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supporting the CINCs the Role of the Goldwater Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act Of 1986 written by U. S. Army US Army Command and Staff College and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the passage of the National Security Act of 1947, Congress has tried to correct the recurring problem of fractured command authority and poor cooperation between the services. Changes in 1958 and the recent Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 have strengthened the unity of the armed forces, and their ability to conduct joint operations. Inherent in the ability to conduct joint operations is the requirement for the services to provide the unified commanders the forces, equipment, and doctrine needed to conduct effective warfare. Because of service parochialism and budget battles, needed resources are not always available to support the unified commander's operational plans. One of the major provisions of the Goldwater-Nichols Act was to increase the CINCs input into the budgeting and force generation process. The purpose of this monograph is to examine the implementation of the Defense Reorganization Act, and see if it has improved the ability of the CINCs to conduct operational warfare. In this monograph, I will first review the reasons for the adoption of the Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. Then I will highlight those aspects of the Act which deal with the combatant commands and their support. Next, I will investigate the organizations and procedures which implement the provisions of the Act, keying on the actions of the combatant commands and the Joint Staff. Finally, I will assess the effectiveness of the Act to determine whether it has been responsive to the needs of the combatant commanders, thus enhancing their ability to conduct operational warfare. After extensive assessment, I have determined that the provisions of the Goldwater-Nichols DOD Reorganization Act of 1986, has significantly improved the ability of the CINCs to conduct warfare. (Goedkoop, Thomas R.)
