Does Innovation Need a Commanding General?
Jim Perkins | April 10, 2019
In September 1999, Secretary of Defense William Cohen announced a change in the unified command plan that re-designated US Atlantic Command as US Joint Forces Command. Although the National Defense Panel that proposed Joint Forces Command’s creation in 1997 did not elaborate extensively on many of the details of this new headquarters, the panel stated that such a command would be:
the common force provider of combat-ready forces to all other commands for joint and combined operations. This command would be responsible for the force readiness and training of all active and reserve components based in the United States. This command would be responsible for developing and validating joint doctrine for the approval of the Joint Chiefs; conducting joint experimentation; directing joint battle laboratories; and overseeing other joint innovation and experimentation efforts.
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