Victory on the Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon (Texas A & M University military history series ; 79)

Bok av James R. Locher
In the 1980s a high-stakes struggle to redesign the relationshipos among the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of Defense and the President resulted in the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. This work provides an account of how Congress unified the Joint Chiefs.