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Victory on the Potomac: The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon (Volume 79) (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series) (Updated Edition) by Senator Sam Nunn (Foreword), James R. Locher, Locher/Nunn Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2004 ISBN-10: 1-58544-398-0 / 1585443980 ISBN-13: 978-1-58544-398-7 / 9781585443987 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 |