Background Material on Structural Reform of the Department of Defense

Abstract

This document is essentially a collection of comments and critiques by a wide variety of sources, and is intended to give Members of the House Committee on Armed Services a full view of the criticisms that have been made about the existing structure of the Department of Defense. This document also does not address questions of reforming the Joint Chiefs of Staff since the committee reviewed those questions in previous years and reported legislation to the floor that was enacted in the last session and transmitted to the Senate. This document, it should be noted, is not an effort to present a balance of pro and con views on particular legislation. That will come out in the hearings before the Investigations Subcommittee. The purpose here is to collect the views of many retired military officers, former Pentagon officials and other commentators concerning the scope and scale of the structural problems inside the Pentagon as they view them.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA526948

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  • Biomedical
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  • Air Force
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Department Of Defense
  • Geography
  • Law
  • Management Personnel
  • Materials
  • Military Education
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States European Command
  • Warfare

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