Interagency Role Model

<p>In 1986 the US Congress passed the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act (GNA) streamlining the military chain of command and promoting jointness and unity of effort within the US military and DoD. Capitalizing on lessons learned from previous eras and military operations the architects of the GNA accurately envisioned the power a well-organized and structured joint military force could project and set into motion the groundwork for what today is the most lethal and synergistic military in the world. As the United States continues to address emerging complex contingency operations the DoD has certainly benefited from that [GNA] reorganization but has struggled to integrate with a legacy interagency process. The existing dichotomy between the DoD and the interagency process could perhaps be alleviated through a GNA-like restructure for the interagency process. Recently there have been many proposals and studies detailing such reorganization. Those details aside any initiative for the US interagency national security policy planning and execution process should be structured along the lines reflecting the salient characteristics of military organization.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>