But the sheer speed of change has produced both a legal vacuum and inadequate political and military oversight of private military contractors.
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Commercial space launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida and from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, both of which can accommodate bigger rockets and more diverse payloads than the other sites, are subject to military oversight.
West said that given this "cloud of suspicion, " certain practices would be changed: the secretary of the Army would inform military oversight committees each time an exception is made, and that the names would be made public as well.
James Jones, currently charged with the military's oversight of most of the subcontinent as the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe.
Pervez Musharraf's military-led government in 2008, Pakistani military and intelligence has retained oversight over key foreign-policy and security matters.
The Military Justice Improvement Act would remove oversight of sexual assault cases from the chain of command and allow victims to report their assaults to an independent prosecutor.
Among military projects, that process is particularly bogged down, largely because of a requirement for review and oversight of study proposals by both an institutional review board and military officials.
The suggestion was that military strikes are more subject to publicly accessible congressional oversight.
That oversight defies both common sense and past military experience, and it disarms us in what may be the most decisive theater of this conflict: the battle of ideas.
Mr Morsi also cancelled a recent military order giving the generals special political privileges, including oversight of the drafting of a new constitution.
The constitution will determine such critical issues as how much power the president will wield, the role of Islam in society, and what oversight a civilian government will have over the military.
Military establishments with poor discipline, poor training and poor civilian oversight are particularly prone to such accidents, and it is almost certain that as the number of nuclear powers increases the reliability of the average military establishment looking after those weapons will drop.
One reason for the oversight was that during the closing days of the Cold War, the military especially the Air Force became infatuated with stealth.
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Just as it once did with the Iraqi military, the U.S. is now putting American police with Iraqi units to improve oversight.
Despite various oversight and assistance programs, troubling new numbers estimate that up to 26, 000 military members may have been sexually assaulted last year, according to results of a survey.
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