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The Functionalist Takeover and the problem of organizational design in the DoD

September 25, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

[Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy] told the Senate Committee on Armed Services that the present assistant secretary could not “give orders.” McElroy proposed a civilian […]

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How OSD, feeding on its growth, became a separate empire

September 26, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

I mention this point at the outset because, from shattered illusions that mere passage of a unification act would produce a military utopia, there has […]

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The rise of the administrator in government

March 15, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

We enter a scene at a hearing on the powers of the Secretary of Defense in 1949. Senator Saltonstall asks Secretary of the Air Force […]

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