Making the Dream Come True: Joint Vision 2010 & Service Responsibilities

Abstract

Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the individual military services of the US armed forces jealously guarded their prerogatives relating to both force development and warfighting. Service rivalries reached a crescendo shortly after World War II, resulting in the Key West agreement of 1948 which delineated the four service structure prevalent throughout the Cold War The legacy of the crash effort to prepare for World War II was that redundancy in military capability was good; the Cold War corollary was that more redundancy was even better. Given the severe nature of the threat in each case, and the extreme cost of failure, military force redundancy was a necessity rather than a luxury.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA443850

Entities

People

  • Patrick C. Neary

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Battlespace
  • Cold War
  • Collateral Damage
  • Combat Forces
  • Command And Control
  • Maneuvers
  • National Security
  • Precision
  • Rapid Deployment
  • Redundancy
  • Second World War
  • War
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.