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.

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McChrystal writes of his doubts when he was asked to take charge of the military's top counterterrorism unit, the Joint Special Operations Command.

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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.

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