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| | consolidated Military Attache and Security Assistance Activities: a Case for Unity of Command |
 | | However, this was a period when U.S. friends and enemies were clearer; U.S. defense sales more robust; force protection not the paramount concern it is today; and defense budget authorizations and personnel resources more able to support redundant units and a large in-country military presence. |
 | | Then in the 1960s, all U.S. military attaches were resubordinated to the new Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), vice their respective services, a system that exists to this day, despite several initiatives to transfer the responsibility for military attaches to JCS, the military services, or to the combatant commands. |
 | | The USDR (who is either the DATT, SAO Chief, or in a few cases an operational force commander) is nominated for each country by the JCS, in consultation with the respective regional combatant commanders, and approved by the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy (OSD(P)). |
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