Managing the military: the Joint Chiefs of Staff and civil–military relations.

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      UNITED States. Joint Chiefs of Staff
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      The Goldwater-Nichols Act was intended to empower the JCS chairman to be able to cut through this veneer of consensus and force real trade-offs among the services. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) is arguably the most politically powerful military officer in the United States. Managing the military: the Joint Chiefs of Staff and civil-military relations. [Extracted from the article]
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