Content deleted Content added
Citation bot (talk | contribs) Altered title. Added url-status. Removed parameters. Some additions/deletions were parameter name changes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Jay8g | Linked from User:Jay8g/sandbox | #UCB_webform_linked 197/3634 |
No edit summary |
||
| (4 intermediate revisions by 4 users not shown) | |||
Line 41:
==Role and responsibilities==
[[File:
After the 1986 reorganization of the [[United States Armed Forces|Armed Forces]] undertaken by the [[Goldwater–Nichols Act]], the Joint Chiefs of Staff does not possess operational authority over troops or other units. Responsibility for conducting military operations goes from the [[President of the United States of America|president]] to the [[United States Secretary of Defense|secretary of defense]] directly to the commanders of the [[Unified Combatant Command|unified combatant command]]s and thus bypasses the Joint Chiefs of Staff completely.
Line 160:
===World War II===
[[File:World War II Joint Chiefs of Staff 1943.jpg|thumb|right|Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting ({{circa
U.S. president [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and British prime minister [[Winston Churchill]] established the [[Combined Chiefs of Staff]] (CCS) during the 1942 [[Arcadia Conference]].<ref Name=WCP>{{cite book |title=United States Army in World War II – The War Department – Washington Command Post: The Operations Division; Chapter VI. Organizing The High Command For World War II "Development of the Joint and Combined Chiefs of Staff System" |last=Cline |first=Ray S. |year=1990 |publisher=Center of Military History, United States Army, Washington, D. C. |pages=98–104 |url=http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/WCP/ChapterVI.htm#p98 |access-date=5 January 2012 |archive-date=11 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181211095615/https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/WCP/ChapterVI.htm#p98 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The CCS would serve as the supreme military body for strategic direction of the joint U.S.–UK war effort.
Line 240:
| budget =
| image =
| chief1_name = LTG [[
| parent_agency = [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]]
| child1_agency =
Line 311:
==Coast Guard==
Although, as discussed above, the [[commandant of the Coast Guard]] is not an ''[[ex officio]]'' member of the JCS like the other service chiefs, Coast Guard officers are legally eligible to be appointed as Chairman and Vice Chairman, pursuant to {{uscsub|10|152|a|1}} and {{uscsub|10|154|a|1}} respectively, which use the collective term "armed forces" rather than listing the eligible services, as well as to other positions on the Joint Staff. {{As of
== Gallery ==
Line 338:
* [[Chief of the Defence Force (Australia)]]
* [[Armed Forces Council (Canada)]]
* [[Chiefs of Staff Committee|Chiefs of Staff Committee (United Kingdom)]]
* [[General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation]]
* [[Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission|Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission (China)]]
* [[General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces]]
* [[Chief of Staff, Joint
* [[Joint Chiefs of Staff (South Korea)]]
* [[Chief of Defence Staff (India)]]
▲* [[Chief of Staff, Joint Staff]]
* [[Staff (military)]] – see Modern United States military usage for organization of Joint Staff (J1 through J8)
| |||