Posted on 04/06/2016 4:46:42 AM PDT by huldah1776
Carter on Tuesday previewed reforms he hopes to push forward this year to Goldwater Nichols, the 30-year-old law that governs how the military reports to the Pentagon and how geographic combatant commands are organized.
"It's time that we consider practical updates to this critical organizational framework, while still preserving its spirit and intent," Carter said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
One of the biggest changes would involve giving the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff more responsibility to coordinate, plan and move troops between geographic combatant commands while still remaining outside the chain of command to provide impartial advice to the president and the defense secretary.
This bolstered role of the chairman would allow for more agility in a complex security environment where threats are rarely confined to just one region, Carter said.
Critics of the current combatant command structure, which divides the world into geographic areas run by generals who report to the defense secretary, said that today's threats span the entire globe, as well as space and cyber realms. The fight against the Islamic State, for example, involves geographic commands in the Middle East, Europe and Africa, as well as special operators and cyber warriors
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Look, if the change is coming under the shadow of the Obama administration, I assure you it’s not good for the American People.
That’s just an empirical opinion.
Next he’ll want appointed political officers to approve all orders.
let me guess- an all-tranny hierarchy
This snowflake couldn't even stop a dirty old man from groping his wife.
Just an excuse to further purge those who yet resist.
Every time I see that pic I get a headache. Come to think of it, I have to find out what military moms are saying and if they are gearing up about this.
Who is ‘Csrtr’? Jimmie? Never says. Stupid argicle
It would seem to me that the military is responding to an enemy that is different than that for which they are currently organized.
That is there is an enemy that is not precisely geographical in nature with no precise regional boundary. That would be the Islamic radicals that are infact everywhere. Thus, they are not the focus of say the General Responsible for forces in Europe where Russia is the primary focus or the Pacific where perhaps north Korea is a primary focus.
given the slow speed of change, it would seem the move is anticipatory of being in place after the obama scourge is gone.
Nothing this administration does is meant to benefit the American people or its institutions. If we can’t figure out the good from it, you know its bad news.
Sec Def.
Second only to the POTUS in military chain of command.
“That’s just an empirical opinion.”
Agree. Anything coming out of this administration I’m instinctively against. Don’t trust’em, never have, never will.
Those I know inside the Beltway have not been impressed with Ash Carter.
My thoughts too especially with all the NWO crap the globalists are pushing for change (enslavement of the general population while the elites live like royalty) these days.
“Next he’ll want appointed political officers to approve all orders.”
The Political officers are Generals and Admirals in todays military, more than the have ever been in the past.
This is absolute horse crap. The CJCS is not a combatant commander, his role is political in nature as he is a cabinet member that advises the President on the status and proper employment of the military. For him to take the role of combatant commander gives the President specific command over troops without oversight. Although the Constitution specifies that the President is CIC in times of war, this is a move to undermine the authority of each branch.
Ding! Ding!
We have a winner!
Just a way to finish crowding out brass that aren’t Affirmative Action hires.
Who is this “Carter” you speak of?
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