Joint Chiefs Of Staff

Events (34)

• July 23, 1986: CIA Director Casey Plots to Break Stalled Arms-for-Hostages Deal 1986-07-23
• February 21, 2001: US and British Forces Bomb Iraqi Military Facilities, Leading to Conflict within US Military Leadership 2001-02-21
• March 14, 2001: Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld Sends Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a Book Excerpt about the Attack on Pearl Harbor 2001-03-14
• (After 8:46 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Joint Chiefs of Staff’s Crisis Team Activated at the Pentagon 2001-09-11
• 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight 77 Misses Key Pentagon Officials 2001-09-11
• March 8, 2002: CIA Alerts White House, Other Agencies that Wilson Found No Evidence of Iraq Uranium Purchase 2002-03-08
• March 10, 2002: Joint Chiefs Chairman Downplays Meaning of Secret ‘Nuclear Posture Review’ 2002-03-10
• October 11, 2002: Army Legal Adviser Suggests that ‘Immunity’ Can be Granted for Planned Use of Abusive Techniques 2002-10-11
• October 25, 2002: Pentagon General Counsel ‘Short-Circuits’ Approval Process of Harsh Interrogation Request 2002-10-25
• March 25, 2003: New York Times Explores Role of Retired Generals as Network Military Analysts 2003-03-25
• April 19, 2003: Columnist Notes that Pro-Military Viewpont Dominates Media, Aided by Retired Military Officers as News Analysts 2003-04-19
• May 8, 2004: Cheney Interviewed by Plame Leak Investigators, Evades Questions 2004-05-08
• May 21, 2004: Zinni: Rumsfeld, Pentagon Neoconservatives Guilty of ‘Dereliction of Duty’ 2004-05-21
• August 3-4, 2005: Military Analyst Fired for Criticizing US Strategy in Iraq 2005-08-03
• April 9, 2006: Retired General: Iraq War Caused by ‘Ignorant’ Civilian ‘Zealots’ in White House, Pentagon 2006-04-09
• April 18, 2006: Military Analysts Confer with Rumsfeld on How to Shape Perceptions of War 2006-04-18
• August 3, 2006: Supreme Commander of US Forces Abizaid: Civil War in Iraq a Distinct Possibility 2006-08-03
• October 5, 2006: Former Marine Chief of Staff: Rumsfeld Has ‘Systematically Emasculated’ the US Military; Iraq a ‘Debacle’ 2006-10-05
• January 10, 2007: Bush Reveals ‘Surge’ Plan for 21,500 More US Troops in Iraq 2007-01-10
• February 4, 2009: No ‘End Game’ in Afghanistan; Pentagon Delivers Strategy Recommendations to Obama 2009-02-04
• March 1, 2009: JCS Chairman Says Iran Has Enough Nuclear Material for a Bomb; Other Officials Disagree 2009-03-01
• March 10, 2012: Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Says Alleged Whistleblower Violated Law 2012-03-10
• January 2003: US Commanders in Afghanistan Ask for Clarification on Interrogation Techniques, Receive Silence
• Mid-January, 1977: Carter: US Will Move Towards Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
• March 2005: Military Issues Guidelines Giving Wide Latitude for Use of US Nuclear Weapons
• July-September 1985: Joint US-Egyptian Military Offensive against Libya Proposed by NSC, Rejected by Pentagon
• September 1981 through November 1983: Hardliners Block INF Arms Agreement
• 1953: Joint Chiefs: America Can ‘Lick the Whole World’ by Adopting Hitler’s Political System
• 1992: Wolfowitz Promotes Sale of Weapons to Israel, Israel Previously Sold Similar Missiles to China
• Fall 2002: Joint Chiefs Advance Alternative Plan for Governing Post-Saddam Iraq; Rumsfeld Responds by Placing Feith in Charge
• Late 1982: JCS Chairman: Little Chance of Any Nuclear War Being ‘Limited or Protracted’
• 2006: Bush Orders Pentagon to Draw Up Plans to Bomb Iran
• Fall 2002: White House Creates New Interagency Task Force to Coordinate Iraq War Planning
• June 2007: US Air Force Plans for Massive Three-Day Air Strike Against Iran