"One Dog to Kick"

Abstract

On December 2nd, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law the 2003 National Defense Authorization Act. Amongst many other things, the bill authorized establishment of a fifth Under Secretary of Defense, the USD for Intelligence (USD(I)). The creation of a single, senior Defense official who would focus on intelligence is not a new idea, but the effort to create the new USD(I) in 2003 reveals that a significant and potentially-controversial action can be relatively quickly accomplished when senior decision makers want it to happen, know how to work in and around "the system," and are willing to engage. The key players in the Office of the Secretary of Defense who led the effort learned valuable lessons from an initial dry run in the process, and creation of the new USD(I) succeeded through a focused effort on their second attempt.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA442065

Entities

People

  • Lawrence W. Danforth

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Homeland Security
  • Intelligence (Information Gathering)
  • Intelligence Community
  • Language
  • Law
  • Military Intelligence
  • National Security
  • Reconnaissance Aircraft
  • Security
  • Tactical Intelligence
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Educational Psychology
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics