Could have been Gennifer Flowers.
Would you mind posting some pictures of when they weren’t being straight? At least your failures won’t go to waste if we could all have a chance to learn from them.
Scholar Beardpig.
I’m sure there’s an app for that.
You guys are missing a very important point: Congress’ direct control of Combatant Commanders and Operational Planning.
There are nine Unified Combatant Commands, each headed by a 4-Star General (seven are geographic, and two are global: Strategic Command and Transportation Command). Each 4-Star General is nominated by the President and verified by the Senate. On nomination, each General must submit an Operational Plan (or OPLAN) developed by his Staff to a Congressional Panel on how he/she intends to run the Command and deal with regional events. Lately, the President has tended to choose hawkish Generals, while the Senate confirmed more moderate ones. While each General is authorized to tailor his/her plans once confirmed and assumption of Command takes place, they rarely do stray too far to the plan, else they have to go back and testify in front of the House Armed Services Committe and Senate Committee on Defense on how conditions changed, and why their OPLAN was modified. Congress gets pretty pissy when Generals brief one thing, and then do another. . .
Now this just talking about the TACON chain of Command. Each Service retains ADCON and OPCON of the Generals, while the Generals (or Combatant Commanders or “CCDR”) retain ADCON, OPCON, and TACON of assigned/attached forces provided to them by the services–it’s a symbiotic relationship. All of this is trumped by the President as Commander in Chief, who can order a change in OPLAN, or directly take TACON of fielded forces, and exercise control through the ADCON/OPCON chain via the CCDR and his J3 staff. This is in times of dire need only, and without a declaration of war, is exercised under the War Powers act of 1973–implemented because hey, when the Soviets launch, the POTUS doesn’t have time to consult Congress on whether or not to retaliate. Normally, Congress can influence the President by holding back funding on things, or committing funds to others.
So the POTUS can force national military strategy through ADCON, OPCON, or TACON chains to fielded forces, and so can Congress by providing money for it. They both nominate/confirm CCDRs who build their OPLANs to bid for Command, and when they take it, have ADCON, OPCON, and TACON over assigned forces from the Services, which are dependent on both orders of the President and funding from Congress; all of which combine forces to ensure that I have eight different bosses on any given day, all of them emailing me to make sure I got copies of the memo about the TPS reports I was supposed to put the new cover sheet onto.
Tripler
And that’s how the military works.
That makes no sense. Senators have nothing to do with Vikings. The Vikings play football and the Senators are a hockey team.
No, New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere. If it had a Senate, being the upper chamber would put them in charge of territories with “South” in the name.
Not that New Zealand has territories or anything.
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