The Traditions and Transformations of the U.S. Presidential Commander in Chief: And the Military Leadership from President Ronald Reagan to President Barack Obama (1981-2013)
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Liao, Tien-Wei
Abstract
The importance of the U.S. Presidency has risen dramatically in the past 240 years, aiso the strength and activities of the U.S. has involved in the operation of the international affairs and became the focus of attention. The implementation of the U.S. Presidential System has made each President of the U.S. promoted military generals such appointed and removed from office; all of them have great powers. The U.S. President has the power to appointment of a military general; it cannot be promoted just little qualifications and constraints, with the great power of appointment. For example, when General Eisenhower served as Supreme Allied Highly Commander in Europe during World War Ⅱ, he was promoted to a four-star general from a colonel, just four years. Alexander Haig, served as the Richard Nixon’s presidency as deputy national security adviser, then promoted as secretary of state in the presidency of Ronald Reagan, also was a special case of a high-ranking general meteoric rise all the way. However, relatively, the President of the United States has the power to appoint high-ranking generals, same the removal power for high-ranking general. During the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. Air Force chief of staff due to unauthorized, unauthorized external speech was immediately met with White House dismissed. Soon after, the General was taken office by President Bill Clinton, just cause he criticized him “to evade military service”, “private behavior for mistake”, and the implementation of the “Homosexual military service” policy, immediately dismissed by the Air Force Major General Campbell in public and a fine of 7,000 dollars. These, though not the President of the United States or the White House personally led appointment, removal and also reflects the U.S. President as a Commander in Chief to get along with high-ranking general relationships. In addition, the United States on October 1, 1986 through the “Goldwater-Nichols Act”(Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense reorganization Act of 1986, that is, for the reform of the defense system in the United States Department of Defense Reform Act), mainly for the United States military budget allocation, procurement of weapons systems, the promotion of officers and personnel, as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff ""(closely related to the President of the United States military Joint Chiefs of Staff, JCS) institutional reform, the paper will be the study of dismissal rests, the paper will focus on the legislative background of the Act affect the level of Merger to be analyzed. Thus, there are so many discussions among the Presidential Rights and other issues in our country; this will be a very important progress at the National Security and National Defense issues. Therefore, this Dissertation will use the Historical Research Method and Document Studies for the implementations of the Law of the U.S. top military leaders and personnel system for 27 years, as well as military leadership between the Presidents of the United States and armed forces over the years, to do an analysis and discussed.
Subjects
The U.S. President
Commander in Chief
Military Leaderships
Military Affairs
Military Appointment
SDGs
Type
thesis
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