Proponents of Goldwater-Nichols reform argue that changes to warfare in a complex world require a different approach to military command and control. The elevation of the former did not automatically lead to the diminution of the latter.” 2 As Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel stated in a 2013 speech, “Goldwater-Nichols succeeded in its purpose by strengthening the Joint Staff and the Combatant Commands, but it went about doing this by layering joint organizations and processes atop service organizations and atop processes. The Service chiefs would provide training, manpower, and equipment for the joint force, allocated and apportioned under the operational control of a combatant commander.
Geographic combatant commanders now report directly to the Secretary of Defense instead of falling under the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. While many associate Goldwater-Nichols with the mandate to end parochialism within the individual Services through new emphasis on “jointness,” the legislation also provided greater command authority for the unified and specified combatant commands. The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 provided the impetus for several organizational changes that are still evident today. Army Africa Exercise Central Accord 2016, in Libreville, Gabon (DOD/ Brian Kimball) Africa Command (USAFRICOM) would have been the ideal CCMD to test and evaluate this new C2 structure.Īirman with 731 st Airlift Squadron pilots C-130 Hercules as part of U.S. While the final version of the NDAA removed this requirement, U.S. The Committee believes that this could provide lessons for improving the integration of operational efforts across the command, streamlining unnecessary layers of management, and reducing the number of staff.” 1 Converting the command and control (C2) structure of a geographic CCMD from a group of Service component commands to a set of JTFs is achievable, despite congressionally mandated reductions in headquarters staff personnel and lack of a major combat operation in theater.
replacing the Service component commands with joint task forces focused on operational military missions. A second proposal would “require the Secretary of Defense to conduct a pilot program on an alternative organizational structure at one combatant command. The first provision seeks to focus the CCMDs on their primary warfighting mission supporting the National Defense Strategy, limiting CCMD participation in other important, but nonessential, mission sets. The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) proposed several changes to improve the organization of the combatant commands (CCMDs) in its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017. Propst, USA, is the Air and Missile Defense Chief for the Army's 1 st Infantry Division. Pope, USMC, is an Action Officer in the Multinational Cooperation Center at U.S. Kamas, USN, is the prospective Executive Officer of the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Weapons School.
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