The Joint Chiefs of Staff

Joint chiefs of staff organization was not formally codified in our laws until a 19 forty seven with the national security act, that created the structure that exists to day at the pentagon. The way the war was set up was we divided the pacific into two separate theatresand you had mc arthur in australia, command in the south pacific and nimets as commander in chief in hawaii. And these two guys both reported to the joint chiefs in washington and and they could talk to each other informally but any conflict between them would have to be resolved in washington. So all o that is just a long winded way of saying that our military really