Defense Secretary Ash Carter is preparing to send Congress a raft of proposed reforms to the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act, while powerful armed services committee chairmen are readying their own potential changes to the 30-year-old law responsible for the Defense Department's present division of roles and responsibilities. Carter told reporters March 4 that DOD's reform proposals would be released to lawmakers in "just a few weeks times." "Some of these things will require legislation, and therefore we will be asking the...
