Defense Organization: The Need for Change : Staff Report to the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate |
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Page 23 - That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free State; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty ; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
Page 27 - When we assumed the soldier we did not lay aside the citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in that happy hour when the establishment of American liberty, on the most firm and solid foundations, shall enable us to return to our private stations in the bosom of a free, peaceful, and happy Country.
Page 115 - The chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense and through the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the commanders of Unified and Specified Commands.
Page 28 - ... act of my official life, by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God ; and those who have the superintendence of them, to his holy keeping. Having...
Page 537 - Defense, and the Secretary of Defense shall be the head thereof. "(b) There shall be within the Department of Defense (1) the Department of the Army...
Page 29 - Not the less true is it, that the liberties of Rome proved the final victim to her military truimphs; and that the liberties of Europe, as far as they ever existed, have, with few exceptions, been the price of her military establishments.
Page 596 - The Secretary of Defense shall be the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense.
Page 15 - Council is to advise the President with respect to the integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies relating to the national security...
Page 246 - Orders to the military departments will be issued through the Secretaries of these departments, or their designees, by the Secretary of Defense or under authority specifically delegated in writing by the Secretary of Defense or provided by law.
Page 343 - The General of the Army shall not be removed, suspended, or relieved from command or assigned to duty elsewhere than at said headquarters, except at his own request, without the previous approval of the Senate...