Gorman, Martin J., and Alexander Krongard

Gorman, Martin J., and Alexander Krongard. 2005. A Goldwater-Nichols Act for the U.S. Government: Institutionalizing the Interagency Process. Joint Forces Quarterly, no. 39 (Autumn): 51-58. https://digitalndulibrary.ndu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/ndupress&CISOPTR=19198&REC=2 (accessed 20 July 2011).

This article proposes wide-ranging national security and interagency reform within the United States government, and argues that the United States is not as ready as it could be to respond to the complex threats of today. Specifically, this reform would include “legislation [that] would institutionalize the interagency process by mandating major structural and cultural changes to streamline the decisionmaking hi­erarchy and establish new methods and organizations that develop policy options, implement strategies, and in­tegrate Government actions.”