"For the longer term, the United States government needs to improve how its constituent agencies—Defense, State, Agency for International Development, Treasury, Justice, the intelligence community, and others—respond to a complex stability operation like that represented by this decade’s Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the previous decade’s operations in the Balkans. They need to train for, and conduct, joint operations across agency boundaries, following the Goldwater- Nichols model that has proved so successful in the U.S. armed services."
-Iraq Study Group Report, Recommendation 75
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"Underlying Assumptions of the National Security Act of 1947" (PDF)
Author: Charles A. Stevenson
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"What the Troops Need: 1947 National Security Act Tangled in Politics, Turf Fights" (PDF)
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Authors: Robert B. Oakley and Michael Casey, Jr.
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Most Important Thing: Legislative Reform of the National Security System" (PDF)
Authors: James R. Locher III