The Road Not Taken: Defense Secretariat Reform.

Abstract

This paper argues the need to extend defense reform to the defense and service secretariats. The author argues that secretariat reform is the logical 'next step' in the now 50-year old process of defense unification begun with the National Security Act of 1947, and that the American tradition of civil supremacy over the military as distinguished from the modern practice of 'civilian control', is not threatened by secretariat reform. The author also proposes a concept for secretariat reform in which the service secretaries would be retained with small personal staffs and their service staffs, but with dual or 'joint' roles, and the service secretariats would be consolidated into a single defense secretariat.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 22, 1998
Accession Number
ADA344369

Entities

People

  • Uldric L. Fiore Jr.

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Power
  • Cold War
  • Department Of Defense
  • Efficiency
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Navy
  • Organizational Structure
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Systems Analysis and Design