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Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too February 9, 2012, 4:08 pm CST I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ... |
Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too February 9, 2012, 3:07 pm CST I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ... |
Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too February 9, 2012, 5:53 am CST I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ... |
Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too February 9, 2012, 2:53 am CST I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ... |
Mitt Romney Gets The Love, Ron Paul (And Newt Gingrich) Should, Too February 9, 2012, 1:38 am CST I appeared as a guest on RT America yesterday (full clip below) to discuss ongoing media bias of the 2012 GOP election coverage -- and by media bias, I don't merely mean a reporter occasionally slipping up and revealing his or her favored ... |
Komen flap reveals liberal media bias, encroaches on rights, columnists say February 6, 2012, 8:03 am CST The mainstream media is drawing criticism from its own for what's seen as a pro-choice bias in the reporting of the ongoing... |
Insiders: Pentagon's Budget Cuts Are Pragmatic for Changing Times February 6, 2012, 7:30 am CST Three-quarters of National Journal’s National Security Insiders said the Obama administration’s plan to cut the Pentagon budget was a smart decision driven by the end of the Iraq war and the nation’s current fiscal crisis, ... |
Grasping a new reality February 4, 2012, 11:33 pm CST WASHINGTON — First, they had to get the handshake right. Two decades earlier in Geneva, Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai had been mortally offended when U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spurned his offered hand. As TV cameras flashed ... |
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Posted by: archiveguard on Aug 01, 2005 - 10:36 PM
The Department of Defense
The Department of Defense is the behemoth among federal agencies. With an annual
budget larger than the gross domestic product of Russia, it is an empire. The
Defense Department is part civilian, part military. The civilian secretary of
defense has ultimate control, under the president. Among the uniformed military,
the top official is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is supported
by a Joint Staff divided into standard military staff compartments-J-2
(intelligence), J-3 (operations), and so on.
Because of the necessary and demanding focus on the differing mission of each
service, and their long and proud traditions, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and
Marine Corps have often fought ferociously over roles and missions in war
fighting and over budgets and posts of leadership. Two developments diminished
this competition.
The first was the passage by Congress in 1986 of the Goldwater-Nichols Act,
which, among other things, mandated that promotion to high rank required some
period of duty with a different service or with a joint (i.e., multiservice)
command. This had strong and immediate effects, loosening the loyalties of
senior officers to their separate services and causing them to think more
broadly about the military establishment as a whole.90 However, it
also may have lessened the diversity of military advice and options presented to
the president. The Goldwater-Nichols example is seen by some as having lessons
applicable to lessening competition and increasing cooperation in other parts of
the federal bureaucracy, particularly the law enforcement and intelligence
communities.
The second, related development was a significant transfer of planning and
command responsibilities from the service chiefs and their staffs to the joint
and unified commands outside of Washington, especially those for Strategic
Forces and for four regions: Europe, the Pacific, the Center, and the South.
Posts in these commands became prized assignments for ambitious officers, and
the voices of their five commanders in chief became as influential as those of
the service chiefs.
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