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From WESAT, 6/9/17¹:

[NOTE: Chris Cavas covers the Navy for Defense News, part of the Army Times Publishing Company]

Mr. CAVAS: ... The Joint Chiefs are not commanders, you know. They're not commanding anything. They are the senior's officers in the service. But it's essentially an advisory board to provide the services a way to think together and then present that advice to the president.

That has declined in recent years where only the chairman of the Joint Chiefs has gone to advice the president and Rumsfeld took that even further and said, the chairman is just supposed to advice me and I'll go advice the president.

So there has been a sort of a shunting aside in a lot of ways that certainly shapes the military. The military, like anybody else, doesn't want to be ignored and hopefully, things might change now.


¹National Public Radio (NPR)
SHOW: Weekend All Things Considered 7:00 PM EST
June 9, 2007 Saturday
LENGTH: 862 words
HEADLINE: Joint Chiefs Shake-Up Leaves Questions
ANCHORS: JACKI LYDEN