...Army Pamphlet No. 525-7-1, The Art and Science of Psychological Operations, "The Secretary of Defense is the principal assistant to the president in all matters relating to Department of Defense, and exercises direction, authority, and control over the department. He serves...

...after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force. (b) The Secretary is the principal assistant to the President...direction of the President and to this title and section 2 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 USC 401), he has authority, direction, and control over...

...framework. 2. Organizations in the Department of Defense a. Responsibility. The Secretary of Defense is the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense. All functions in the Department of Defense and its component agencies are performed under the authority,...

...DUTIES Question. Section 113 of Title 10, United States Code, provides that the Secretary of Defense is the principal assistant to the President in all...Defense. Subject to the direction of the President, and the law, he has authority, direction and control over the Department of Defense. Do you believe there...

...Code, which provides the statutory basis for the Armed Services, assigns the Secretary of Defense as the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense. The Secretary has "authority, direction, and control" over the Department. With respect to those elements...

...Establishment, renamed the Department of Defense following a reorganization in 1949. The Secretary of Defense is the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to national security. The OSD is responsible for establishing general policies and programs for the departments...

...Establishment, renamed the Department of Defense following a reorganization in 1949. The Secretary of Defense is the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to national security. The OSD is responsible for establishing general policies and programs for the departments...

...President and the Secretary of Defense have to approve each such assignment? Secretary RUMSFELD. As the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense would approve the assignment of operational responsibilities to combatant...

...himself had helped make that impossible. The secretary's role is denned in the National Security Act as "the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the National Security." But with the newly empowered juggernaut of the Pentagon bureaucracy gaining momentum,...

...alternative analysis within their products, but where consensus cannot be reached. (U) Title X, Section 113. "Subject to the direction of the President and to this title and section 2 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 USC 401), the Secretary of Defense has authority, direction,...