In Sweeping Overhaul, DOD Reorganizes Policy Office

By Jason Sherman / August 28, 2006 at 5:00 AM
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is seeking congressional approval to establish a new assistant secretary for global affairs position as part of a far-reaching reorganization of one of the Pentagon's most important shops -- the office of the under secretary of defense for policy. This bureaucratic shake-up, which requires new legislation to increase the ranks by one assistant defense secretary, is intended to bring a key Defense Department office more in line with the growing emphasis on managing international military coalitions,...

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