The Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs: An Unequal Dialogue in Which Direction?
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As senators begin evaluating the President’s nominees to replace James Mattis as Secretary of Defense and General Joseph Dunford as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, they may also want to address relations between the two top staffs at the Pentagon.
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