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===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.
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