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Victory on the Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon.(Book Review)

Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-DEC-04
Format: Online - approximately 1044 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Victory on the Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon. By James R. Locher; III. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2002. Photographs. Notes. Index. Pp. xviii, 524. $34.95 ISBN: 1-58544-187-2

This book is a combination history and memoir of how became law. as a...

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...Goldwater-Nichols James Locher served team leader of the staff supporting the Senate's Task Force on Defense Reorganization and was a principal author of Defense Organization: The Need for Change: Staff Report to the Committee on Armed Services (1985), often referred to as "the Locher Report." The author was well placed to give an insider's account of the process, and he delivers here.

In February 1986, Army Chief of Staff Gen. John Wickham attacked the proposed legislation at a meeting between Senators Barry Goldwater and Sam Nunn (respectively Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), three staffers (including Locher), and the Joint Chiefs of...

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