Command of the ISAF passes in February from Turkey to a joint command led by Germany and the Netherlands.
Gus McLachlan, chief of plans for the coalition's Joint Command in Kabul, said the international community had a long-term stake in Afghanistan's security.
Under the peace agreement, northern troops should have been withdrawn in July, to be replaced by a joint command of northern and southern troops.
The ship, the USS Mount Whitney, is the Navy's only Joint Command Ship and is considered to be the most sophisticated ship ever commissioned in terms of communication, control, command, computers and intelligence capabilities, according to the Navy's Web site.
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Collage is now in use at the National Association of Securities Dealers, the U.S. Joint Forces Command and the U.S. Defense Contracts Management Agency.
The prototype device is called the Joint Battle Command-Platform Handheld.
Last year he went further, proposing the closure of the Joint Forces Command in Virginia and a 10% reduction in the budget for contract workers for each of the next three years.
The thrust of the reforms was to concentrate strategic leadership at the top of the department and establish a new Joint Forces Command to integrate capabilities such as military intelligence across all three services.
Taking geo-location services to a level beyond what vanilla GPS can provide has been looked at a time or two before, and apparently, the Joint Forces Command is hoping to implement a similar system on the battlefield.
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"Well, I've been in (law enforcement) for over 20 years, and it seems like within the last five to 10 years they have gotten really, really creative in how they bring their drugs across, " said Andy Adame, special operations supervisor for the Joint Field Command Arizona of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
McChrystal writes of his doubts when he was asked to take charge of the military's top counterterrorism unit, the Joint Special Operations Command.
And it - when you get to the higher levels of command, Joint is the only way to go.
Mike Hostage, commander of Air Combat Command at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia.
In addition, SEDENA posted a liaison officer at U.S. Northern Command headquarters in 2009, and SEMAR has liaison officers posted at Joint Inter-Agency Task Force (JIATF)-South and Fleet Forces Command, in addition to U.S. Northern Command.
On that autumn morning, James Hill was the Commander-in-Chief of NORAD, which is the joint Canadian-US North American Aerospace Defense Command.
In 1815, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by a joint British, German and Dutch force under the command of the Duke of Wellington and General Gebhard von Bluecher.
The main focus of the book is Mr Obama's review of Afghan strategy in the second half of 2009 and his conflict with General Petraeus (then head of central command) and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs.
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From 2009 to 2011, she served as Coordinator for the Interagency Provincial Affairs Office at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and as Senior Civilian Representative for the Combined Joint Task-Force 82 with the International Security Assistance Force Regional Command-East at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
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The group also includes members from the State Department, USAID, the Office of the Vice-President, Treasury, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the CIA. The group is linked to US Central Command.
We continue to have joint activity in Afghanistan, and the Turkish armed forces have taken over the command of the forces there for a third time with the additional support that we have sent to Afghanistan in the last couple of months.
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He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two former commanding generals of the Central Command, whose jurisdiction includes Iraq, the director of operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many, many others with great integrity and long experience in national security affairs.
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Recent reports, however, indicate that the Department of Defense, under the forward-thinking leadership of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace, strongly favors the creation of a separate military command for Africa.
The law cited by Sheehan is the 1986 Defense Reorganization Act, known as Goldwater-Nichols, which defined the chain of command: from the President to the Secretary of Defense, through the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and on to the various combatant commanders, who were put in charge of all aspects of military operations, including joint training and logistics.
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