Publications of the Joint History Office
Contributors: United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Publisher: Joint Chiefs of Staff
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: United States. -- Joint Chiefs of Staff. -- Historical Office; United States. -- Joint Chiefs of Staff -- Chairmen -- History -- 20th century; Unified operations (Military science) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: Examines the development of the chairmanship as an institution during its first fifty years. Presents the careers of the men who served as Chairman and Vice Chairman during that time. Includes a study of the origins and development of the first major shift in national military strategy since the late 1940s. Traces and explains the development of the global structure of unified and specified commands from 1946-1993, and joint operations in Grenada and Panama. Features biographical information, photographs, appendices, endnotes, maps, statistics, and indexes
Notes: Title from disc label

Shipping list no.: 2003-0019-E

Military, government policy historians, and researchers

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Table of contents: title: Disc 1. The chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1949-1999; title: Disc 2. The development of the base force, 1989-1992 / by Lorna S. Jaffe. The history of the unified command plan, 1946-1993 / by Ronald H. Cole ... [et al.]. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and national policy. Operation Just Cause / by Ronald H. Cole. Operation Urgent Fury / by Ronald H. Cole. So many, so much, so far, so fast / by James K. Matthews and Cora J. Holt. The joint contact team program / by Robert T. Cossaboom