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...School Dean Graham T. Allison, in a statement released last week, said that "[Kelman] would strengthen the School's capacity in the fields of institutional analysis and public management. In addition, his knowledge of Sweden and Germany brings an important comparative dimension to his analysis...
...down on confusing lines of command, the commission would strengthen the role of the ten theater commanders who actually control the troops in the field by making them report to the Secretary of Defense through the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The theater commands are now unified in name only. For example, the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), who happens to be a Navy admiral, lacks the authority to choose his Air Force subordinate, who in practice is far more beholden to the Chief of the Air Force...
...reduce interservice rivalry in strategy and budget decisions, the commission would reform the Joint Chiefs of Staff and strengthen the role of the Chairman. The Joint Chiefs are the uniformed heads of the four services and are supposed to advise the President and Secretary of Defense on military needs. Under the existing system, the Chiefs are torn between looking out for their own services and shaping a coherent national-defense strategy, while the Chairman has an impressive title but no staff or real authority. The Packard commission would make him the President's principal uniformed adviser in fact as well...
Congress is currently wrestling with various proposals to reform the JCS structure. The House last fall passed a bill to strengthen the role of the Chairman, and the Senate Armed Services Committee is about to do likewise, despite howls of protest from the current service Chiefs. The Navy, traditionally the most independent of the services, is making an all-out blitz to block the legislation, which would "make a hash of our defense structure," according to outspoken Navy Secretary John Lehman. Nonetheless, Weinberger has signaled that he will not oppose the legislation, and passage of some version seems likely...
Dean of the Graduate School of Design Gerald M. McCue said Mitchell's appointment was the product of a search begun last spring for a scholar who would strengthen the use of computer design and graphics in the architecture department...