NOUN
- the executive agency that advises the President on military questions; composed of the chiefs of the United States Army and the United States Navy and the United States Air Force and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps
How To Use Joint Chiefs of Staff In A Sentence
- Outcomes of the British efforts to dictate overall strategic pressure were the self-protective attempts at interservice cooperation that resulted in the creation of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the principal continuing mechanism for British-American wartime coordination, the Combined Chiefs of Staff CCS organization. Between War and Peace
- I'm also pleased to announce that I will recommend to the president that he -- that he nominate G.neral James E. Cartwright, currently the commander of strategic command, as the next vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, succeeding Admiral E.mund G. G.ambastiani Jr., who has announced his intention to retire. CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2007
- In his first six months, Bush shored up NATO's cohesion -- and Germany's place within the Alliance -- by deferring the contentious issue of short-range nuclear missiles and by advancing drastic cuts in conventional forces in Europe, over the objection of his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Robert B. Zoellick: Lessons of German Unification
- In February 1956 Eisenhower approved a Joint Chiefs of Staff request for increased production of both very high-yield thermonuclear weapons and small warheads suitable for air defense.
- Also in 1947, building on the wartime Joint Chiefs of Staff as a mechanism for interservice cooperation, a single Department of Defense, responsible for overseeing all activities of the armed forces and reporting directly to the White House, was established. Between War and Peace
- As President Barack Obama approaches a summer of decisions on Afghanistan, one of the trickiest will be whether to promote his battlefield commander, Gen. David Petraeus, to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Obama Faces Choice on Petraeus
- The fleet dispatched for the exercises also include three 1,800-ton submarines, a 4,500-ton destroyer, and some 50 fighter jets, Cmdr. Won Hyung-sik of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in Seoul. Despite Threat, S. Korea Proceeds With Drills
- Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who argued against military intervention there.
- We must remember the words of Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who said that "resolve is a force multiplier. Hamed Wardak: Committing to "Obama's Wars"
- Bradley went on to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
