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The
United States Department of Defense (
DOD or
DoD) is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the Military of the United States. The organization and functions of the DOD are set forth in Title 10 of the United States Code of the
United States Code.
The DOD is the major tenant of The Pentagon, and has three major components — the Department of the Army, the
Department of the Navy, and the
Department of the Air Force. Among the many DOD agencies are the Missile Defense Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the
Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA), the
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the National Security Agency (NSA). The department also operates several joint service schools, including the
National War College.
History
During 1945, specific plans for the proposed DoD were put forth by the Army, the Navy, and the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a special message to Congress on
December 19, 1945, President
Harry Truman proposed creation of a unified Department of National Defense. A proposal went to Congress in April 1946, but was held up by the Naval Affairs Committee hearings in July 1946, which raised objections to the concentration of power in a single department. Truman eventually sent new legislation to Congress in February 1947, where it was debated and amended for several months.
DoD was created in 1947 as a national military establishment with a single secretary as its head to preside over the former
United States Department of War (founded in 1789) and
United States Department of the Navy (founded in 1798; formerly the Board of Admiralty, founded in 1780). The Department of the Air Force was also created as a new service at the same time (it had been part of the War Department as the United States Army Air Force), and made part of DoD. DoD was created in order to reduce
interservice rivalry which was believed to have reduced military effectiveness during World War II.
On
July 26,
1947, Truman signed the
National Security Act of 1947, which set up the
National Military Establishment to begin operations on
September 18, 1947, the day after the
United States Senate confirmed
James V. Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense. The Establishment had the unfortunate abbreviation "NME" (the obvious pronunciation being "enemy"), and was renamed the "Department of Defense" (abbreviated as DOD or DoD) on
August 10, 1949; in addition, the Secretary of Defense was given greater authority over three of the branches of the military (
United States Army,
United States Navy, and Air Force). Prior to the creation of the National Military Establishment / Department of Defense, the Armed Forces of the United States were separated into different cabinet-level departments without much central authority. The Marine Corps remained as a separate service under the Department of the Navy, and the
United States Coast Guard remained in the
United States Department of the Treasury, ready to be shifted to the Navy Department during time of declared war (as it was in both world wars).
Organization
is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
The Pentagon, in Arlington County, Virginia, Virginia across the
Potomac River from Washington, D.C., is the headquarters of the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense is protected by the
Pentagon Force Protection Agency which ensures law enforcement and security for The Pentagon and various other jurisdictions throughout the National Capital Region (NCR). The Department includes the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, as well as non-combat agencies such as the
National Security Agency and the
Defense Intelligence Agency. The DoD's annual budget was roughly . This figure does not include tens of billions more in supplemental expenditures allotted by Congress throughout the year, particularly for the Iraq War. It also does not include expenditures by the
United States Department of Energy on nuclear weapons design and testing.
In wartime, the Department of Defense has authority over the Coast Guard; in peacetime, that agency is under the control of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to the creation of DHS, the Coast Guard was under the control of the United States Department of Transportation and earlier under the Department of the Treasury. According to the U.S. Code, the Coast Guard is at all times considered one of the five armed services of the United States. During times of declared war (or by Congressional direction), the Coast Guard operates as a part of the Navy; the service has not been under the auspices of Navy since World War II, but members have served in the undeclared wars and conflicts since then while the service remained in its peacetime department.
Command Structure
The command structure of the Department of Defense is defined by the
Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. Under the act, the chain of command runs from the
President of the United States, through the Secretary of Defense, to the Unified Combatant Command (COCOM) who command all military forces within their area of responsibility. The
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the service Joint Chiefs of Staff are responsible for readiness of the U.S. military and serve as the President's military advisers, but are not in the chain of command. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is by law the highest ranking military officer in the United States.
Components
United States Secretary of Defense
- United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Military Departments
- United States Secretary of the Army
- United States Secretary of the Navy
- United States Department of the Navy including the United States Navy and United States Marines
- United States Secretary of the Air Force
- United States Department of the Air Force including the United States Air Force
{||Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ([United States Navy)|-|
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ([United States Marine Corps)|-|Chief of Staff of the United States Army ([United States Army)|-|Commandant of the Marine Corps ([United States Marine Corps)|-|
Chief of Naval Operations ([United States Navy)|-|Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force ([United States Air Force)|}The
United States Naval Observatory falls under the Chief of Naval Operations.In 2003, the
National Communications System was moved to the Department of Homeland Security, but only for executive purposes. The National Communications System still centralizes its activities within the Department of Defense, since the human resources required by NCS (example: Military Departments) still reside within the Department of Defense, or for retention of practical maintenance.
Unified Combatant Commands
There are nine, soon to be ten
Unified Combatant Commands; five (soon to be six) regional and four functional. United States Africa Command will become initially operational in October 2007.
{] (NORTHCOM)||General
Victor E. Renuart Jr. (
United States Air Force) (also Chief of NORAD)], Coloradon [homeland defense and coordinating homeland security with civilian forces.] (CENTCOM),||Admiral
William J. Fallon (
United States Navy)||MacDill Air Force Base, Florida through the [Persian Gulf region, into Central Asia; handing over responsibility of Horn of Africa to
United States Africa Command.|-|United States European Command (EUCOM)] (United States Army) (also
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR))] (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe), Belgium (USEUCOM HQ in Stuttgart,
Germany)] and
Israel; handing over responsibility of
Africa to
United States Africa Command.|-|United States Pacific Command (PACOM)] (United States Navy)||
Camp H. M. Smith, Oahu,
Hawaii-[Pacific Ocean region including Hawaii.|-|United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)] (
United States Navy)||
Miami, Florida, [Central America and the surrounding waters] (AFRICOM)||
General William E. Ward (United States Army)||Stuttgart, Germany for now; to be relocated to
African continent] excluding Egypt|-|United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM)||Admiral Eric T. Olson (United States Navy)||
MacDill Air Force Base, Florida (JFCOM)||General [Lance L. Smith (United States Air Force) (also
Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT))],
Virginia (STRATCOM)||General [Kevin P. Chilton (United States Air Force)||Offutt Air Force Base,
Nebraska (TRANSCOM)||General [Norton A. Schwartz (
United States Air Force)||Scott Air Force Base,
Illinois, [USCENTCOM and USPACOM. (Click to see enlarged image.)Beginning in 2007, a new
United States Africa Command was authorized. This proposed significant changes to the areas of responsibility for other adjacent geographical commands as shown in the accompanying graphic.
Expenditures
The military expenditure of the
United States Department of Defense for fiscal year 2007 is:{], which comprises all of the U.S. government's money not accounted for by pre-existing obligations.
However, in terms of per capita spending, the U.S. ranks third behind
Israel and
Singapore. It is also number 27 in terms of military spending per dollar GDP.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in 2003 the United States spent approximately 47% of the world's total military spending of US $956,000,000,000.
As a percentage of its GDP, the United States spends 3.7% on military, ranking it 26th in the world. This is higher by percent than France's 2.6%, and lower than Saudia Arabia's 10%. This 3.7% is low relative to the United States's past 60-some years.
Also, since it is an all-volunteer force and since most jobs within it require high degrees of technical skill and personnel retention, the United States armed forces have dramatically higher personnel costs, both military and civilian, compared to the militaries of countries which use
conscription, many of which have far more
List of countries by number of total troops than the United States. However, only China has more standing troops than the UnitedStates.
Current issues
On
February 22,
2002, the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General has reported that DOD has not and will not account for $1.1 trillion of "undocumentable adjustments". In addition, there have been several high-profile Government Accountability Office (GAO) Government Accountability Office investigations of the Department of Defense.
The GAO is also interested in ways DOD can partner with other government agencies to save money and create efficiencies. One way was through use of the
Veterans Administration's Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) program. The CMOP fills continuation of therapy or refill prescriptions only. Initial prescriptions are written for veterans at one of the Veteran Administration’s health care facilities. When a refill is needed, the heath care facilities process the prescriptions. The CMOP then uploads this information from multiple facilities in its region. Once filled, the
United States Postal Service (USPS) delivers the prescriptions. The health care facility or clinic is notified of the prescription’s completion electronically. As of 2000, the annual workload was near 50 million prescriptions. Processing and filling prescriptions took two days; three more days were required for mail delivery.
The DOD and VA conducted a pilot program in FY 2003. In its 2005 report, GAO-05-555, the GAO found that the DOD could generate savings because CMOP's size allows it to negotiate volume discounts. The CMOP program is now serving the entire country from a number of locations including West Los Angeles, California;
Bedford, Massachusetts;
Dallas, Texas; Hines, Illinois, Charleston, South Carolina; Leavenworth, Kansas; and
Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Military Buildup
To meet the growing demands in the Middle East and around the world, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates proposed to the President to increase the overall size of the military by approximately 92,000 troops over the course of five years. Specifically, the proposal calls for an Army troop cap of 550,000 active duty soldiers and a troop cap of 202,000 active duty Marines. The total active duty force of the United States after the buildup will be about 1,479,000.
See also
References
Related legislation
External links
- United States DOD website
- Read Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding the Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of Defense Profile: Making the Tail Smaller and the Tooth Stronger
- Entire Collection of DoD Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Reading Room
- The Budget Graph A graphical representation of the 2007 United States federal discretionary budget, including all military related funding.
- DOD property auctions
- Title 10 U.S.C.
- Department Of Defense Meeting Notices and Rule Changes from The Federal Register RSS Feed
Department of Defense redirects here. For the defense departments in governments of other countries, see defence ministry.
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| logo_caption =
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| date1 = September 18, [
| date1_name = Activated
| date2 = August 10, [
| date2_name = Renamed
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The
United States Department of Defense (
DOD or
DoD) is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the
Military of the United States. The organization and functions of the DOD are set forth in
Title 10 of the United States Code of the
United States Code.
The DOD is the major tenant of The Pentagon, and has three major components — the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force. Among the many DOD agencies are the Missile Defense Agency, the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the
Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA), the
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and the
National Security Agency (NSA). The department also operates several joint service schools, including the National War College.
History
During 1945, specific plans for the proposed DoD were put forth by the Army, the Navy, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a special message to Congress on
December 19, 1945, President
Harry Truman proposed creation of a unified Department of National Defense. A proposal went to Congress in April 1946, but was held up by the Naval Affairs Committee hearings in July 1946, which raised objections to the concentration of power in a single department. Truman eventually sent new legislation to Congress in February 1947, where it was debated and amended for several months.
DoD was created in 1947 as a national military establishment with a single secretary as its head to preside over the former United States Department of War (founded in 1789) and
United States Department of the Navy (founded in 1798; formerly the Board of Admiralty, founded in 1780). The
Department of the Air Force was also created as a new service at the same time (it had been part of the War Department as the
United States Army Air Force), and made part of DoD. DoD was created in order to reduce
interservice rivalry which was believed to have reduced military effectiveness during
World War II.
On
July 26, 1947, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which set up the
National Military Establishment to begin operations on September 18, 1947, the day after the
United States Senate confirmed James V. Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense. The Establishment had the unfortunate abbreviation "NME" (the obvious pronunciation being "enemy"), and was renamed the "Department of Defense" (abbreviated as DOD or DoD) on August 10, 1949; in addition, the Secretary of Defense was given greater authority over three of the branches of the military (United States Army, United States Navy, and Air Force). Prior to the creation of the National Military Establishment / Department of Defense, the Armed Forces of the United States were separated into different cabinet-level departments without much central authority. The Marine Corps remained as a separate service under the Department of the Navy, and the
United States Coast Guard remained in the
United States Department of the Treasury, ready to be shifted to the Navy Department during time of declared war (as it was in both world wars).
Organization
is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.
The Pentagon, in
Arlington County, Virginia,
Virginia across the
Potomac River from
Washington, D.C., is the headquarters of the Department of Defense. The Department of Defense is protected by the
Pentagon Force Protection Agency which ensures law enforcement and security for The Pentagon and various other jurisdictions throughout the National Capital Region (NCR). The Department includes the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, as well as non-combat agencies such as the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. The DoD's annual budget was roughly . This figure does not include tens of billions more in supplemental expenditures allotted by Congress throughout the year, particularly for the
Iraq War. It also does not include expenditures by the United States Department of Energy on nuclear weapons design and testing.
In wartime, the Department of Defense has authority over the Coast Guard; in peacetime, that agency is under the control of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to the creation of DHS, the Coast Guard was under the control of the
United States Department of Transportation and earlier under the Department of the Treasury. According to the U.S. Code, the Coast Guard is at all times considered one of the five armed services of the United States. During times of declared war (or by Congressional direction), the Coast Guard operates as a part of the Navy; the service has not been under the auspices of Navy since World War II, but members have served in the undeclared wars and conflicts since then while the service remained in its peacetime department.
Command Structure
The command structure of the Department of Defense is defined by the
Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. Under the act, the chain of command runs from the President of the United States, through the Secretary of Defense, to the Unified Combatant Command (COCOM) who command all military forces within their area of responsibility. The
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the service Joint Chiefs of Staff are responsible for readiness of the U.S. military and serve as the President's military advisers, but are not in the chain of command. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is by law the highest ranking military officer in the United States.
Components
United States Secretary of Defense
- United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
{||
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ([United States Navy)|-|Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ([United States Marine Corps)|-|
Chief of Staff of the United States Army ([United States Army)|-|Commandant of the Marine Corps ([United States Marine Corps)|-|
Chief of Naval Operations ([United States Navy)|-|Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force ([United States Air Force)|}The
United States Naval Observatory falls under the Chief of Naval Operations.In 2003, the
National Communications System was moved to the
Department of Homeland Security, but only for executive purposes. The National Communications System still centralizes its activities within the Department of Defense, since the human resources required by NCS (example: Military Departments) still reside within the Department of Defense, or for retention of practical maintenance.
Unified Combatant Commands
There are nine, soon to be ten
Unified Combatant Commands; five (soon to be six) regional and four functional. United States Africa Command will become initially operational in October 2007.
{] (NORTHCOM)||General Victor E. Renuart Jr. (
United States Air Force) (also Chief of NORAD)],
Coloradon [homeland defense and coordinating homeland security with civilian forces.] (CENTCOM),||Admiral William J. Fallon (United States Navy)||
MacDill Air Force Base,
Florida through the [Persian Gulf region, into
Central Asia; handing over responsibility of Horn of Africa to United States Africa Command.|-|
United States European Command (EUCOM)] (
United States Army) (also Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR))] (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe), Belgium (USEUCOM HQ in Stuttgart, Germany)] and Israel; handing over responsibility of
Africa to United States Africa Command.|-|United States Pacific Command (PACOM)] (
United States Navy)||Camp H. M. Smith,
Oahu,
Hawaii-[Pacific Ocean region including Hawaii.|-|
United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)] (United States Navy)||Miami, Florida, [Central America and the surrounding waters] (AFRICOM)||
General William E. Ward (United States Army)||
Stuttgart,
Germany for now; to be relocated to African continent] excluding Egypt|-|United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM)||Admiral Eric T. Olson (
United States Navy)||MacDill Air Force Base,
Florida (JFCOM)||General [Lance L. Smith (United States Air Force) (also
Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT))],
Virginia (STRATCOM)||General [Kevin P. Chilton (United States Air Force)||
Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska (TRANSCOM)||General [Norton A. Schwartz (
United States Air Force)||
Scott Air Force Base,
Illinois, [USCENTCOM and USPACOM. (Click to see enlarged image.)Beginning in 2007, a new
United States Africa Command was authorized. This proposed significant changes to the areas of responsibility for other adjacent geographical commands as shown in the accompanying graphic.
Expenditures
The military expenditure of the United States Department of Defense for fiscal year 2007 is:{], which comprises all of the U.S. government's money not accounted for by pre-existing obligations.
However, in terms of per capita spending, the U.S. ranks third behind
Israel and
Singapore. It is also number 27 in terms of military spending per dollar GDP.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in 2003 the United States spent approximately 47% of the world's total military spending of US $956,000,000,000.
As a percentage of its GDP, the United States spends 3.7% on military, ranking it 26th in the world. This is higher by percent than France's 2.6%, and lower than Saudia Arabia's 10%. This 3.7% is low relative to the United States's past 60-some years.
Also, since it is an all-volunteer force and since most jobs within it require high degrees of technical skill and personnel retention, the United States armed forces have dramatically higher personnel costs, both military and civilian, compared to the militaries of countries which use
conscription, many of which have far more List of countries by number of total troops than the United States. However, only China has more standing troops than the UnitedStates.
Current issues
On February 22, 2002, the Department of Defense Office of the Inspector General has reported that DOD has not and will not account for $1.1 trillion of "undocumentable adjustments". In addition, there have been several high-profile
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government Accountability Office investigations of the Department of Defense.
The GAO is also interested in ways DOD can partner with other government agencies to save money and create efficiencies. One way was through use of the Veterans Administration's Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) program. The CMOP fills continuation of therapy or refill prescriptions only. Initial prescriptions are written for veterans at one of the Veteran Administration’s health care facilities. When a refill is needed, the heath care facilities process the prescriptions. The CMOP then uploads this information from multiple facilities in its region. Once filled, the United States Postal Service (USPS) delivers the prescriptions. The health care facility or clinic is notified of the prescription’s completion electronically. As of 2000, the annual workload was near 50 million prescriptions. Processing and filling prescriptions took two days; three more days were required for mail delivery.
The DOD and VA conducted a pilot program in FY 2003. In its 2005 report, GAO-05-555, the GAO found that the DOD could generate savings because CMOP's size allows it to negotiate volume discounts. The CMOP program is now serving the entire country from a number of locations including
West Los Angeles, California; Bedford, Massachusetts;
Dallas, Texas; Hines, Illinois, Charleston, South Carolina; Leavenworth, Kansas; and
Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Military Buildup
To meet the growing demands in the Middle East and around the world, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates proposed to the President to increase the overall size of the military by approximately 92,000 troops over the course of five years. Specifically, the proposal calls for an Army troop cap of 550,000 active duty soldiers and a troop cap of 202,000 active duty Marines. The total active duty force of the United States after the buildup will be about 1,479,000.
See also
References
Related legislation
External links
- United States DOD website
- Read Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding the Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of Defense Profile: Making the Tail Smaller and the Tooth Stronger
- Entire Collection of DoD Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Reading Room
- The Budget Graph A graphical representation of the 2007 United States federal discretionary budget, including all military related funding.
- DOD property auctions
- Title 10 U.S.C.
- Department Of Defense Meeting Notices and Rule Changes from The Federal Register RSS Feed
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