Joint Chiefs of Staff

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will continue to present the National Security Council with his best military advice, DoD officials said today.

Military decision-making needs to exceed the speed of events, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote recently in Joint Forces Quarterly.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today used the situation in The Gambia, where a serving president refused to give up power to his freely elected successor, as an example of why the peaceful transfer of power in the United States shouldn’t be taken for granted.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 18, 2017 — Throughout its history, NATO has always changed and adapted to new threats, new doctrines and new realities, the commander of the alliance’s Allied Command Transformation told reporters here yesterday.