Lieutenant Colonel V. Filippov
The United States of America is the most powerful state in the capitalist world, the political and military center of imperialism. American imperialism appears as the most reactionary and aggressive force of our time.
The main tool for the implementation of the aggressive plans of the militaristic circles of the United States are the armed forces, which act as the world's gendarme. They are located both on the US continent and beyond (at present, American troops and bases are located on the territory of more than 60 countries of the world).
The supreme operational and administrative body of the US armed forces is the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CNS). It also performs the role of an advisory body and headquarters in the chain of operational control between the Minister of Defense and the commanders-in-chief (commanders) of the unified and special commands of the armed forces (Fig. 1)
Organization and functions of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. The KNSh consists of a chairman and four members: the chiefs of staff of the three branches of the armed forces (army, air force, navy) and the commandant of the marines, who participates in the work of the committee only when discussing issues related to the marines.
Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee is the highest-ranking officer in the armed forces. He is appointed by the President on the recommendation and with the consent of the Senate from among the generals (admirals) for a period of two years. In addition to participating in the work of the KNS as its chairman, he prepares the agenda of the committee meetings and informs the Minister of Defense about those issues on which the members of the committee do not have a unanimous opinion. The Chairman also carries out general management of the work of the joint headquarters.
Rice. 1. The Committee of the Chiefs of Staff and its subordinate bodies of the leadership of the US armed forces
Members of the Chiefs of Staff Committee unlike the chairman, they are responsible for their branch of the armed forces. They are entrusted with the following tasks: administrative leadership of their types of armed forces, participation in the planning and development of the proposal of the KNSh, participation in the operational leadership of the troops as a representative body (headquarters) of the Ministry of Defense. They serve as chief military advisers to the president, the National Security Council, and the secretary of defense.
The Chiefs of Staff Committee has the following main functions; develops strategic plans and provides strategic leadership of the armed forces, including the management of operations carried out by the commanders-in-chief of the joint and special commands; develops master plans for military mobilization and logistics; makes recommendations to the Minister of Defense regarding the establishment and organizational structure of joint and special commands; checks the plans of the commanders-in-chief of the joint commands; plans to conduct joint operations, as well as combat and operational training of troops; submits to the Secretary of Defense military needs and strategic planning considerations needed to develop budgets, foreign military "aid" programs, industrial mobilization plans, and scientific research programs.
The working body of the committee of chiefs of staff is the joint headquarters, which carries out the direct development of plans and measures relating to the armed forces as a whole.
joint headquarters has 400 officers and consists of seven directorates: personnel, operational, planning, communications and electronics, modeling and losing various options for war, rear and administrative (Fig. 2).
Rice. 2. Organization of the joint headquarters of the committee of chiefs of staff of the US armed forces
Each department consists of departments and performs functions in accordance with its purpose. The organizational structure of the joint headquarters may change depending on the situation and taking into account the tasks facing the CNS and the headquarters. Its personnel are represented approximately equally from the ground forces, the air force and the navy (including the marines). In the committee of the chiefs of staff, but outside the framework of the official joint headquarters, there is, in addition, a large number of various organizations - directorates, agencies, special groups, etc., which are subordinate either to the operational management, or to the planning department, or directly to the chief of the joint headquarters. In fact, they are part of the joint headquarters, but they are not subject to the limit of 400 officers established by Congress. Taking into account these bodies, the CNS employs up to 2,000 people, of which about 1,000 are officers.
Subordinate organs of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Currently, ten departments of the Ministry of Defense have been created, of which four are subordinate to the Minister of Defense through the CNS: intelligence, nuclear weapons, communications and cartography.
Defense Intelligence Agency was created in 1961 to solve the following tasks: organization, leadership and management of all intelligence agencies that were part of the intelligence department or attached to it; coordination and control over the performance of the intelligence functions of the intelligence agencies of the branches of the armed forces; control over the implementation of plans and programs included in the area of responsibility of the department; achieving maximum savings and efficiency in the use of intelligence funds; providing intelligence to the main bodies of the Ministry of Defense; collection, compilation and evaluation of all necessary intelligence information on military issues; development of principles and procedures for its collection and processing, establishing the order of its receipt, as well as the evaluation of documents received from the ministries of the branches of the armed forces; participation in the development of state evaluation documents for the US National Security Council.
The Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense has approximately 6,000 personnel, of which about 50% are civilians.
Nuclear Warfare Administration was established in 1959. It was the successor to the Directorate for the Development of Special Types of Weapons, created in 1947 after the liquidation of the Manhattan Engineering District, where work was carried out to create an atomic bomb. The department basically retained its functions and on general issues became subordinate to the Minister of Defense through the KNSh, on issues related to research work, improvement, testing and evaluation of samples - to the director of R&D. and for the rest, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy.
It coordinates with national authorities on matters related to research, development, production, stockpiling and testing of nuclear weapons; advises and assists the Joint Chiefs of Staff in making recommendations regarding stockpile composition, distribution and dispersal of nuclear weapons: planning and supervising nuclear weapons testing: conducting inspections of facilities where nuclear weapons, their components and auxiliary equipment are assembled, repaired or stored machinery and equipment; directs a number of training and familiarization courses on nuclear weapons. There are about 6,500 people in the states of the nuclear weapons department, of which 4,200 are military personnel.
Communications Department was established in 1960 to provide operational direction and management of the armed forces communications system, which includes all communications facilities and facilities, as well as to direct research and development, planning and construction. There are 2,500 people in the communications department, of which 1,500 are military personnel.
Cartographic Department was established in 1972. It united in its composition about 75% of the forces and means of all components of the Ministry of Defense and the ministries of the branches of the armed forces involved in geodesy and cartography.
The Department organizes work in the field of compiling, publishing, distributing and distributing topographic, aviation, space and marine navigational charts and informational navigational certificates, tables and notices, and is also responsible for providing nautical charts and navigational data to the merchant and passenger fleets of the United States, all ships, voyages to American ports. Aerospace, hydrographic and topographic centers and a cartographic school are subordinate to him.
The US armed forces are organizationally consolidated into unified and special commands, the structure of which has undergone changes throughout the entire period after the Second World War. There are currently six unified and two special commands in the US armed forces (Fig. 1). The forces and means included in their composition, according to the law of 1958, are operationally subordinate to the commander-in-chief (commander) of these commands. When performing combat missions, the commands report to the Minister of Defense and the President through the KNSh. Combat missions are determined and set by the Minister of Defense with the consent of the President through the Committee of Chiefs of Staff.
Each of the six joint commands has combat missions corresponding to a certain geographical area, and each commander in chief is responsible for preparing plans for conducting combat operations in his area of responsibility.
The combat missions facing the joint and special commands can be formulated as follows: conducting combat operations, strategic or non-strategic in scale and varying in intensity; ensuring the security of certain areas, ranging from the protection and evacuation of the population of the United States and ending with a nuclear strike by the armed forces; preparation of plans for a large number of possible warfare options [contingency planning); providing military assistance; ensuring American military representation and participation in multilateral alliances.
Joint Readiness Command(until 1972 - shock command) was created to provide opportunities for the rapid airlift of combat forces and assets to overseas territories, if the situation requires it. In addition, the command is responsible for conducting combat operations, if necessary, in the regions of the Near and Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa (south of the Sahara).
Joint Commands of the United States Armed Forces in the European Area and Pacific oceans are mainly responsible for the conduct of hostilities in their respective geographical areas under any contingency. The Commander-in-Chief of the United States Joint Command in the European Area is simultaneously the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces of NATO in Europe and is responsible for the conduct of hostilities in Europe, carried out jointly with the armed forces of NATO member countries or only with the armed forces of the United States, if the situation so requires.
United States Joint Command in the Atlantic Ocean does not include formations and units of the ground forces and the air force. It is intended mainly for participation in a general war at sea. Its Commander-in-Chief is simultaneously the Supreme Commander of the NATO Armed Forces in the Atlantic and is responsible for conducting combat operations in support of the US military forces in the European zone, as well as for participating in a strategic nuclear war, as part of the United States Armed Forces Command in the Atlantic zone. ocean includes nuclear missile submarines.
United States Joint Command for Central and South America primarily responsible for organizing the defense of the Panama Canal Zone, as well as providing military assistance to the countries of Latin America and the implementation of combat plans for any contingency that may arise in Latin America.
United States Joint Command in the Alaska Zone is responsible for the defense of that geographical area, but in combat missions, the commander-in-chief of this command is essentially the commanding command within the framework of the joint command of the aerospace defense of the North American continent.
The Special Aerospace Defense Command provides anti-aircraft, anti-missile, and anti-space defense for the continental United States. The commander of the aerospace defense command is simultaneously the commander-in-chief of the joint command of the aerospace defense of the North American continent, consisting of American and Canadian forces and means of the aerospace defense.
Special Strategic Air Command is primarily responsible for the conduct of a strategic nuclear war. It includes all intercontinental ballistic missiles of the Minuteman and Titan types, as well as strategic aviation of the US Air Force.
Military Transport Aviation Command, transferred to the position of a special one since 1977, combines in its composition all parts of strategic and tactical transport aviation (not shown in the diagram). It is designed to carry out air transportation in the interests of all branches of the armed forces and provide transportation on government assignments. The main task of the command is to ensure the strategic transfer of troops from the United States to overseas theaters.
For better coordination in matters of distribution of goals and tasks, the committee of chiefs of staff formed the strategic goals planning department, the head of which is the commander of the SAC (concurrently).
In addition to the above departments and commands, two military educational institutions (the National Defense University and the Command and Staff College) are subordinate to the Chiefs of Staff Committee, as well as a large number of representatives, missions and military delegations of the US armed forces. including the following representatives: at the talks on the limitation of strategic arms, on the mutual and balanced reduction of armed forces, in the military staff committee of the UN. military committee of NATO, a group of military deputies CENTO. Inter-American Defense Council.
Operational management of the armed forces. To provide the president, the secretary of defense and the committee of chiefs of staff with information about the armed forces of the United States and its allies, the enemy and neutral countries, the state of the strategic offensive and defensive forces, as well as other information, the United States has created a global system for operational command and control of the armed forces. It allows using a computer to accumulate, analyze and issue the data necessary for decision-making, as well as to transmit orders and orders in a short time. The US Armed Forces Global Command and Control System is a complex of stationary and mobile command centers and points equipped with computer technology and integrated into a single whole using communications facilities.
The main subscribers of the system are the main and reserve command centers and the air command post of the armed forces. All of them are subordinated to the operational management of the joint headquarters of the committee of the chiefs of staff of the US armed forces.
Main command center located in the Pentagon (Washington). It is equipped with modern means of communication, as well as processing and displaying the situation. A round-the-clock duty is organized here, led by a general (admiral).
Alternate command center equipped in the state of Maryland, and the air command post - on EC-135 and Boeing 747 aircraft stationed not at Andrews Air Force Base (Maryland). Both of them, as well as the main command center, are equipped with appropriate communications and data processing facilities and are ready to take over the management of the armed forces in place of the main command center (if necessary).
The command center of the armed forces relies on automated control systems of the branches of the armed forces and commands.
The command center has its own communication center, which can establish communication with the command posts of the branches of the armed forces, joint and special commands, as well as with operational government agencies, intelligence agencies, etc.
To ensure the communication of the President of the United States with the Department of Defense, the Committee of Chiefs of Staff and the ministries of the branches of the armed forces, the Secretary of Defense and the Committee of Chiefs of Staff with the ministries of the branches of the armed forces, combined and special commands, the ministries of the branches of the armed forces with the main headquarters and commands, joint and special commands between itself and subordinate commands in the armed forces of the United States created a unified communications system of the Department of Defense, which occupies a leading position in the national communications system. It is a complex of relay nodes interconnected by backbone lines, to which, using local lines, terminal nodes serving the highest command and control bodies of the armed forces are connected.
The main components of the unified communications system of the Ministry of Defense are the global systems of the ground forces, the Air Force and the Navy, an automated digital communication system, an automated telephone system, an automated closed telephone system, a military satellite communications system, as well as communications facilities that provide a global system for the operational management of the armed forces. United States of America, and special strategic communications networks.
The Committee of the Chiefs of Staff is a collegiate body for the operational command and control of the armed forces. He works under the direct supervision of the Minister of Defense and the President of the country. Its decisions are made by voting. Issues that are submitted for discussion by the KNS are selected directly by the chairman of the committee. On all issues on which unanimity was not reached in the committee, the chairman informs the Minister of Defense. In this case, the document is returned to the committee or submitted for decision to the Minister of Defense or the President.
The Chairman of the Council of Ministers has the right to make independent decisions with subsequent information from the members of the committee in the following cases:
When there is an urgent need to use the armed forces, when time does not allow for consultation with members of the CNS;
When the procedure for the use of armed forces has been predetermined by the directives, plans and instructions of the KNSh;
If the chairman knows the general point of view of the members of the committee on similar issues;
When the issues are not important enough to consult with members of the KNS.
Due to the fact that strategic command and control of the armed forces are closely intertwined with foreign policy planning, coordination of strategic and foreign policy plans is often carried out between representatives of the NSC and the State Department. This means that the committee of chiefs of staff has a serious influence on the development of the political plans of the government.
One of the important factors in the participation of the KNS in politics is the support of monopolies specializing in the production of weapons and military equipment, which leads to the growth of the military-industrial complex. Behind almost every member of the KNS is a certain group of military-industrial magnates. The constant disputes between the army, air force and navy testify to the struggle not only between branches of the armed forces for priority, but also between monopolies for profitable military orders.
The Committee of Chiefs of Staff uses its influence to foment the "cold war" and the arms race, primarily in the production of strategic nuclear missile weapons. He is also directing his efforts towards weakening the control over the activities of military bodies by Congress and civil authorities.
Foreign military review, 1977 , №3, p.9-15
The United States of America is the most powerful state in the capitalist world, the political and military center of imperialism. American imperialism appears as the most reactionary and aggressive force of our time.
The main instrument for carrying out the aggressive plans of the militaristic circles are the armed forces, which act as the world's gendarme. They are located both on the US continent and beyond (at present, American troops and bases are located on the territory of more than 60 countries of the world).
The supreme operational and administrative body of the US armed forces is the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CNS). It also performs the role of an advisory body and headquarters in the chain of operational control between the Minister of Defense and the commanders-in-chief (commanders) of the unified and special commands of the armed forces (Fig. 1)
Rice. 1. The Committee of the Chiefs of Staff and its subordinate bodies of the leadership of the US armed forces
Organization and Functions of the Chiefs of Staff Committee
The KNSh consists of a chairman and four members: the chiefs of staff of the three branches of the armed forces (army, air force, navy) and the commandant of the marines, who participates in the work of the committee only when discussing issues related to the marines.Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee is the highest-ranking officer in the armed forces. He is appointed by the President on the recommendation and with the consent of the Senate from among the generals (admirals) for a period of two years. In addition to participating in the work of the KNS as its chairman, he prepares the agenda of the committee meetings and informs the Minister of Defense about those issues on which the members of the committee do not have a unanimous opinion. The Chairman also exercises general management of the work of the joint headquarters.
Members of the Chiefs of Staff Committee unlike the chairman, they are responsible for their type of armed forces. They are entrusted with the following tasks: administrative leadership of their types of armed forces, participation in the planning and development of the proposal of the KNSh, participation in the operational leadership of the troops as representatives of the body (headquarters) of the Ministry of Defense. They serve as chief military advisers to the president, the National Security Council, and the secretary of defense.
The Chiefs of Staff Committee has the following main functions:
- develops strategic plans and provides strategic leadership of the armed forces, including the management of operations carried out by the commanders-in-chief of the joint and special commands;
- develops master plans for military mobilization and logistics;
- makes recommendations to the Minister of Defense regarding the creation and organizational structure of the joint and special commands;
- checks the plans of the commanders-in-chief of the joint commands;
- plans to conduct joint operations, as well as combat and operational training of troops;
- submits to the Secretary of Defense military needs and strategic planning considerations needed to develop budgets, foreign military "aid" programs, industrial mobilization plans, and scientific research programs.
joint headquarters has 400 officers and consists of seven directorates: personnel, operational, planning, communications and electronics, modeling and losing various options for war, rear and administrative (Fig. 2).
Rice. 2. Organization of the joint headquarters of the committee of the chiefs of staff of the armed forces of the United States
Each department consists of departments and performs functions in accordance with its purpose. The organizational structure of the joint headquarters may change depending on the situation and taking into account the tasks facing the CNS and the headquarters. Its personnel are represented approximately equally from the ground forces, the air force and the navy (including the marines). In the committee of the chiefs of staff, but outside the framework of the official joint headquarters, there is, in addition, a large number of various organizations - directorates, agencies, special groups, etc., which are subordinate either to the operational management, or to the planning department, or directly to the chief of the joint headquarters. In fact, they are part of the joint headquarters, but they are not subject to the limit of 400 officers established by Congress. Taking into account these bodies, the KNSh employs up to 2,000 people, of which about 1,000 are officers.
Subordinate Bodies of the Chiefs of Staff Committee
Currently, ten departments of the Ministry of Defense have been created, of which four are subordinate to the Minister of Defense through the CNS: intelligence, nuclear weapons, communications and cartography.Intelligence Directorate The Ministry of Defense was established in 1961 to solve the following tasks:
- organization, leadership and management of all intelligence agencies that are part of the intelligence department or attached to it;
- coordination and control over the performance of the intelligence functions of the intelligence agencies of the branches of the armed forces;
- control over the implementation of plans and programs included in the area of responsibility of the department;
- achieving maximum savings and efficiency in the use of intelligence funds;
- providing intelligence to the main bodies of the Ministry of Defense;
- collection, compilation and evaluation of all necessary intelligence information on military issues;
- development of principles and procedures for its collection and processing, establishing the order of its receipt, as well as the evaluation of documents received from the ministries of the branches of the armed forces;
- participation in the development of state evaluation documents for the US National Security Council.
Nuclear Warfare Administration was established in 1959. It was the successor to the Directorate for the Development of Special Types of Weapons, created in 1947 after the liquidation of the Manhattan Engineering District, where work was carried out to create an atomic bomb. The Directorate basically retained its functions and for general issues became subordinate to the Minister of Defense through the CNS, for issues related to research work, improvement, testing and evaluation of samples - to the Director of R&D, and for the rest - to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy.
It coordinates with national authorities on matters related to research, development, production, stockpiling and testing of nuclear weapons; advises and assists the Joint Chiefs of Staff in making recommendations concerning stockpile composition, distribution and dispersal of nuclear weapons; carries out planning and supervision in the field of nuclear weapons testing: conducts inspection reviews of facilities where nuclear weapons, their components and auxiliary machinery and equipment are assembled, repaired or stored; directs a number of training and familiarization courses on nuclear weapons. There are about 6,500 people in the states of the nuclear weapons department, of which 4,200 are military personnel.
Communications Department was established in 1960 to provide operational direction and control of the military communications system, which includes all communications facilities and facilities, as well as to manage research and development, planning and construction. There are 2,500 people in the communications department, of which 1,500 are military personnel.
Cartographic Department was established in 1972. It united in its composition about 75% of the forces and means of all components of the Ministry of Defense and the ministries of the types of armed forces involved in geodesy and cartography.
The Department organizes work in the field of compiling, publishing, distributing and distributing topographic, aviation, space and marine navigational charts and informational navigational certificates, tables and notices, and is also responsible for providing nautical charts and navigational data to the merchant and passenger fleets of the United States, all ships, voyages to American ports. Aerospace, hydrographic and topographic centers and a cartographic school are subordinate to him.
The US armed forces are organizationally consolidated into joint and special commands, the structure of which has undergone changes throughout the entire period after the Second World War. There are currently six joint and two special commands in the US armed forces (Fig. 1). The forces and means included in their composition, according to the law of 1958, are operationally subordinate to the commander-in-chief (commander) of these commands. When performing combat missions, the commands report to the Minister of Defense and the President through the KNSh. Combat missions are determined and set by the Minister of Defense with the consent of the President through the Committee of Chiefs of Staff.
Each of the six unified commands has combat missions corresponding to a certain geographical area, and each commander-in-chief is responsible for preparing plans for conducting combat operations in his area of responsibility.
The combat missions facing the joint and special commands can be formulated as follows:
- the conduct of hostilities, strategic or non-strategic in scale and varying in intensity;
- ensuring the security of certain areas, ranging from the protection and evacuation of the population of the United States and ending with a nuclear strike by the armed forces;
- preparation of plans for a large number of possible warfare options [contingency planning);
- providing military assistance;
- ensuring American military representation and participation in multilateral alliances.
Joint Commands of the United States Armed Forces in the European Area and the Pacific Area mainly responsible for the conduct of hostilities in their respective geographical areas under any contingency. The Commander-in-Chief of the United States Joint Command in the European Area is simultaneously the Supreme Commander of the Joint Armed Forces in Europe and is responsible for the conduct of hostilities in Europe, carried out jointly with the armed forces of NATO member countries or only with the armed forces of the United States, if the situation requires it.
Joint Command of the US Armed Forces in the Atlantic Ocean does not include formations and units of the ground forces and the air force. It is intended mainly for participation in a general war at sea. Its Commander-in-Chief is also the Supreme Commander of the NATO Atlantic Forces and is responsible for conducting combat operations in support of the US military forces in the European zone, as well as for participating in a strategic nuclear war, since the US Atlantic Command includes nuclear missile submarines.
Joint Command of the United States Armed Forces in the Zone of Central and South America primarily responsible for organizing the defense of the Panama Canal Zone, as well as providing military assistance to the countries of Latin America and the implementation of combat plans for any contingency that may arise in Latin America.
United States Joint Command in the Alaska Zone is responsible for the defense of this geographical area, however, when performing combat missions, the commander-in-chief of this command is essentially the commanding command within the framework of the joint command of the aerospace defense of the North American continent.
Aerospace Defense Special Command provides anti-aircraft, anti-missile and anti-space defense of the continental United States. The commander of the aerospace defense command is simultaneously the commander-in-chief of the unified command of the aerospace defense of the North American continent, consisting of American and Canadian forces and means of the aerospace defense.
Special Strategic Air Command is primarily responsible for the conduct of a strategic nuclear war. It includes all intercontinental ballistic missiles of the and type, as well as strategic aviation of the US Air Force.
, transferred to the position of a special one since 1977, combines in its composition all parts of strategic and tactical transport aviation (not shown in the diagram). It is designed to carry out air transportation in the interests of all types of armed forces and provide transportation on government assignments. The main task of the command is to ensure the strategic transfer of troops from the United States to overseas theaters.
For better coordination in the distribution of goals and tasks, the committee of chiefs of staff formed the strategic goals planning department, the head of which is the commander of the SAC (concurrently).
In addition to the above departments and commands, two military educational institutions (the National Defense University and the Command and Staff College) are subordinate to the Committee of Chiefs of Staff, as well as a large number of representatives, missions and military delegations of the US armed forces, including the following representatives: in negotiations on limiting strategic arms, on the mutual and balanced reduction of armed forces, in the UN military staff committee, the NATO military committee, the group of military deputies, the Inter-American Defense Council.
Operational Command of the Armed Forces
To provide the president, the secretary of defense and the committee of chiefs of staff with information about the armed forces of the United States and its allies, the enemy and neutral countries, the state of the strategic offensive and defensive forces, as well as other information, the United States has created a global system for operational command and control of the armed forces. It allows using a computer to accumulate, analyze and issue the data necessary for decision-making, as well as to transmit orders and orders in a short time. The US Armed Forces Global Operational Command and Control System is a complex of stationary and mobile command centers and points equipped with computers and integrated into a single whole with the help of communications.The main subscribers of the system are the main and reserve command centers and the air command post of the armed forces. All of them are subordinate to the operational management of the joint headquarters of the committee of the chiefs of staff of the US armed forces.
The main command center is located in the Pentagon (Washington). It is equipped with modern means of communication, as well as processing and displaying the situation. A round-the-clock duty is organized here, led by a general (admiral).
The reserve command center is equipped in the state of Maryland, and the air command post is equipped on the EU-135 and Boeing 747 aircraft stationed outside the Andrews airbase (Maryland). Both of them, as well as the main command center, are equipped with appropriate communications and data processing facilities and are ready to take over the management of the armed forces in place of the main command center (if necessary).
The command center of the armed forces relies on automated control systems for the branches of the armed forces and commands.
The command center has its own communication center, which can establish communication with the command posts of the branches of the armed forces, joint and special commands, as well as with operational government agencies, intelligence agencies, etc.
To liaise the President of the United States with the Department of Defense, the Committee of Chiefs of Staff and the ministries of the branches of the armed forces, the Secretary of Defense and the Committee of Chiefs of Staff with the ministries of the branches of the armed forces, joint and special commands, the ministries of the branches of the armed forces with the main headquarters and commands, joint and special commands between itself and subordinate commands in the US armed forces created a unified communications system of the Department of Defense, which occupies a leading position in the national communications system. It is a complex of relay nodes interconnected by trunk lines, to which, using local lines, end nodes are connected that serve the highest command and control bodies of the armed forces.
The main components of the unified communications system of the Ministry of Defense are the global systems of the ground forces, the Air Force and the Navy, an automated digital communication system, an automated telephone system, an automated closed telephone system, a military satellite communications system, as well as communications facilities that provide a global system for the operational management of the armed forces. United States of America, and special strategic communications networks.
The Committee of Chiefs of Staff is a collegiate body for operational command and control of the armed forces. He works under the direct supervision of the Minister of Defense and the President of the country. Its decisions are made by voting. Issues that are submitted for discussion by the KNS are selected directly by the chairman of the committee. On all issues on which unanimity was not reached in the committee, the chairman informs the Minister of Defense. In this case, the document is returned to the committee or referred to the decision of the Minister of Defense or the President.
The Chairman of the Council of Ministers has the right to make independent decisions with subsequent information from the members of the committee in the following cases:
- when there is an urgent need to use the armed forces, when time does not allow for consultation with members of the CNS;
- when the procedure for the use of armed forces was predetermined by the directives, plans and instructions of the CNS;
- if the chairman knows the general point of view of the members of the committee on similar issues;
- when the issues are not important enough to consult with members of the KNS.
One of the important factors in the participation of the KNS in politics is the support of monopolies specializing in the production of weapons and military equipment, which leads to the growth of the military-industrial complex. Behind almost every member of the KNS is a certain group of military-industrial magnates. The constant disputes between the army, air force and navy testify to the struggle not only between the branches of the armed forces for priority, but also between monopolies for profitable military orders.
The Committee of Chiefs of Staff uses its influence to foment the "cold war" and the arms race, and primarily in the production of strategic nuclear missile weapons. He is also directing his efforts towards weakening the control over the activities of military bodies by Congress and civil authorities.
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Since 1986, the obligation of the Committee for direct operational-tactical control of troops in the combat zone has been abolished. Operational-tactical command of the groupings of the Armed Forces in the theater of operations transferred to the chiefs operational headquarters in the theater who receive orders for combat use directly from the Secretary of Defense and the President - Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces. The CNS retains the functions of operational-strategic planning, reports to the Commander-in-Chief and the Minister of Defense, organization of combat training and training of military personnel of all branches of the armed forces, and ensuring the combat readiness of US armed forces groupings in the world theater of operations.
Current line-up
| Name | Position held in the KNS | Type of armed forces |
|---|---|---|
| General Joseph Dunford | Chairman | United States Marine Corps |
| General Paul J. Selva | Vice Chairman | USAF |
| General Mark A. Milley | Chief of Staff of the US Army | US SW |
| General Robert Neller | United States Marine Corps Commandant | United States Marine Corps |
| Admiral John Richardson | Chief of Staff of United States Naval Operations | US Navy |
| General David Goldfein(David L. Goldfein) | Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force | USAF |
| General Joseph L. Lengyel | Chief of the United States National Guard | US National Guard |
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