For the Goldwater-Nichols Act, see Pub.

The legal foundation for the document is spelled out in the Goldwater-Nichols Act.

His most important legislative achievement may have been the Goldwater-Nichols Act, which reorganized the US military's senior-command structure.

In 1986, he participated in the debate and passage of the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act, which made fundamental changes in military organization and operations.

In 1986, the Goldwater-Nichols Act reworked the command structure of the United States military.

The Goldwater-Nichols Act brought sweeping changes to the way the U.S. military forces were organized.

Under the Goldwater-Nichols Act, military advice was centralized in the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs as opposed to the service chiefs.

The Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 created unified combatant commands bringing the army together with the other four military services under unified, geographically organized command structures.

We need to develop a model of "jointness" for the intelligence community, analogous to what the Goldwater-Nichols Act did for the uniformed military 18 years ago.

The 1986 passage of the Goldwater-Nichols Act caused increased interested in Joint Professional Military Education and created a standard.