Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Douglas T. Stuart
  • 2. Present at the legislation: the 1947 National Security Act / Douglas T. Stuart
  • 3. Ike and the birth of the CINCs: the continuity of unity of command / David Jablonsky
  • 4. DoD Reorganization Act of 1986: improving the Department through centralization and integration / Douglas C. Lovelace, Jr.
  • 5. Institutionalizing defense reform: the politics of transformation in the Root, McNamara, and Cohen eras / Joseph R. Cerami
  • Time for a revolution: the transition from national defense to international security / Grant T. Hammomd
  • 7. National security and the interagency process: forward into the 21st century / Gabriel Marcella
  • 8. Improving national security decisionmaking / Constantine Menges
  • 9. Servants, supplicants, or saboteurs: the role of the uniformed officer and the changing nature of America's civil-military relations / John Hillen
  • 10. DoD in the 21st century / Lawrence J. Korb
  • 11. National Security Act of 2002 / William A. Navas Jr.
  • 12. Presidential leadership and national security policy making / Robert D. Steele
  • 13. Conclusion / Douglas T. Stuart.