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Reviews five key areas that have emerged and developed during the
past decade: funding nuclear security; creating an international
spent fuel facility to aid the Russian nuclear complex;
commercializing the excess defense infrastructure; using
transparency to ensure the safe management of nuclear materials
worldwide; and maintaining leadership of the US domestic nuclear
infrastructure. The volume lacks a subject index.
During the summer of 1992, Senator Sam Nunn, Chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, initiated legislation to enhance civilian
and military cooperative efforts in meeting critical domestic
needs. In a speech before the Senate Armed Services Committee, he
called for a major reexamination of the roles and missions of the
nation's Armed Forces to help solve these problems. The political
context of Senator Nunn's speech is as important as its content.
The cold war was over, domestic crises were manifesting themselves,
and the Armed Forces, especially after the Gulf War, enjoyed
unprecedented prestige and unique capabilities and efficiencies.
These efficiencies, Senator Nunn believes, can be turned on
domestic difficulties. As budgets were cut, the broad area of roles
and missions also became the vehicle for scrubbing the budget and
revalidating missions and force structures. The revalidation
process continues and, in simple terms, the defense budget will see
dollars being taken out or new missions added. This paper details
Senator Nunn's ideas for new missions. It sets forth his speech,
the relevant materials from reports of the Senate Armed Services
Committee and the House-Senate Conference Committee (Appendix A),
and the final text of the legislation as enacted in the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (Appendix B).
War is waged not only on battlefields. In the mid-1980s a
high-stakes political struggle to redesign the relationships among
the president, secretary of defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and warfighting commanders in the
field resulted in the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. Author James
R. Locher III played a key role in the congressional effort to
repair a dysfunctional military whose interservice squabbling had
cost American taxpayers billions of dollars and put the lives of
thousands of servicemen and women at risk. Victory on this front
helped make possible the military successes the United States has
enjoyed since the passage of the bill and to prepare it for the
challenges it must still face.Victory on the Potomac provides the
first detailed history of how Congress unified the Pentagon and
does so with the benefit of an insider's view. In a fast-paced
account that reads like a novel, Locher follows the bill through
congressional committee to final passage, making clear that the
process is neither abstract nor automatic. His vivid descriptions
bring to life the amazing cast of this real-life drama, from the
straight-shooting chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee,
Barry Goldwater, to the peevishly stubborn secretary of defense,
Caspear Weinberger.Locher's analysis of political maneuvering and
bureaucratic infighting will fascinate anyone who has an interest
in how government works, and his understanding of the stakes in
military reorganization will make clear why this legislative
victory meant so much to American military capability. James R.
Locher III, a graduate of West Point and Harvard Business School
began his career in Washington as an executive trainee in the
Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has worked in the White
House, the Pentagon, and the Senate. During the period covered by
this book, he was a staff member for the Senate Committee on Armed
Services. Since then, he has served as an assistant secretary of
defense in the first Bush and the early Clinton administrations.
Currently, he works as a consultant and lecturer on defense
matters.
Zell Miller was one of the United States' most respected leaders.
His integrity, passion, and commitment to excellence earned the
praise of colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Miller often
attributed his successes to the value of his formative experience
in the Marine Corps as a young man. In his writing and stump
speeches, he stated, "In the twelve weeks of hell and
transformation that were Marine Corps boot camp, I learned the
values of achieving a successful life that have guided and
sustained me on the course which, although sometimes checkered and
detoured, I have followed ever since". In Corps Values Miller
recounts his life and the simple but powerful lessons he learned in
the U.S. Marines: the core values he feels we must embrace if we
are to be successful as individuals and as a nation. Only by
incorporating such time-honored Marine qualities as pride,
discipline, courage, and respect into our personal and professional
lives can we meet the challenges that lie ahead. With Corps Values
Miller urges us all to go back to "basic training" to reinforce the
values that ultimately lead to success in any endeavor.
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