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	United States
		United States of America, popularly referred to as the United States or as America, a federal republic on the continent of North America, consisting of 48 contiguous states and the noncontiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii.
		The conterminous 48 states are bounded on the north by Canada, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
		The United States in the mid-1990s produced 57 percent of its petroleum needs, but new domestic discoveries tend to be small and costly to recover, especially in the geologically complex mountain regions and the deep waters of the continental shelf.
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	Encyclopedia: United States Secretary of Defense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Secretary is appointed by the President with the approval of the Senate, and is a member of the Cabinet.
		In the same massive reorganization, the Secretary of War was replaced by the Secretary of the Army and, along with the Secretary of the Navy and the new Secretary of the Air Force, became a non-Cabinet position placed under the Secretary of Defense.
		The SecDef, as the head of the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense, is assisted by a Deputy Secretary and five Under Secretaries in the fields of Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer; Intelligence; Personnel and Readiness; and arguably the most important, Policy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/United-States-Secretary-of-Defense (3190 words)

	Department of Defense - MSN Encarta
		The major subdivisions are the Office of the Secretary, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military departments, the unified and specified commands, the Armed Forces Policy Council, and the agencies.
		The staff of the Office of the Secretary is primarily civilian.
		The Joint Chiefs of Staff consists of a chairman, chiefs of staff of the United States Army and the United States Air Force, the chief of naval operations (United States Navy), and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps; all the members are four-star officers.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570788/Department_of_Defense.html (892 words)

	United States Department of Defense - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The United States Department of Defense, abbreviated as DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government.
		The Department of Defense is based in The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia outside Washington, DC, across the Potomac River.
		Under the act, the chain of command runs from the President of the United States, through the Secretary of Defense, to the regional commanders within one of several commands who command all military forces within their area of operation.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/u/n/i/United_States_Department_of_Defense_b846.html (928 words)

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		Defense Secretary William S. Cohen says, "The Cold War's end diminished the threat of global nuclear holocaust, but a host of new threats has emerged to challenge the world's sole remaining superpower" (Kozaryn 1).
		Defense Secretary Cohen is forgetting, purposely, about China and he is doing this to justify his administrations huge cuts on defense.
		According to the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense's report in the military strength figures for February 28, 1997 there was a decrease of 7,064 fighting men and women from January 31, 1997 and a decrease of 48,126 from the same time in 1996.
	members.tripod.com /~ddhunter/defense.html (1698 words)

	DefenseLINK - Top Civilian and Military Leaders
		The Secretary of Defense is the principal defense policy adviser to the President and is responsible for the formulation of general defense policy and policy related to all matters of direct concern to the Department of Defense, and for the execution of approved policy.
		The Secretary of Defense is a member of the President's Cabinet and of the National Security Council.
		The Deputy Secretary of Defense is delegated full power and authority to act for the Secretary of Defense and exercise the powers of the Secretary on any and all matters for which the Secretary is authorized to act pursuant to law.
	www.defenselink.mil /osd/topleaders.aspx (390 words)

	Homeland Security: Framing the Problem
		After Khobar Towers, Secretary of Defense William Cohen said that the United States was vulnerable to asymmetric attacks by weapons of mass destruction (WMD) on the battlefield or in the homeland.
		The DFI definition is that homeland defense is the protection of US territory, population and infrastructure through deterrence of and defense against direct attacks as well as the management of the consequences of such attacks.
		Thus, an office should be established under the Secretary of Defense, perhaps at the Assistant Secretary of Defense level, to develop guidance and oversee the translation of guidance into strategy and coherent programs.
	web.mit.edu /ssp/spring01/oprey.htm (922 words)

	U.S. Treasury - Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS)
		The Exon-Florio provision is implemented by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS"), an inter-agency committee chaired by the Secretary of Treasury.
		The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ("CFIUS") was originally established by Executive Order 11858 in 1975 mainly to monitor and evaluate the impact of foreign investment in the United States.
		The other members are the Secretaries of State, Defense, and Commerce, the Attorney General, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Trade Representative, and the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
	www.treasury.gov /offices/international-affairs/exon-florio (1191 words)

	Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
		As she stated at her confirmation hearing, "we must use American diplomacy to help create a balance of power in the world that favors freedom.
		And the time for diplomacy is now." In her remarks at Princeton University on September 30, 2005, Secretary Rice spoke of supporting democratic aspirations: "Now, to support democratic aspirations, we must be serious about the universal appeal of certain basic rights.
		Secretary Rice visited Moscow, May 14-15 for meetings with senior government officials and representatives of civil society.
	www.state.gov /secretary (518 words)

	Office of the Secretary of Defense
		All the personal flags used by officials of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as well as by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, use the same eagle and arrows, which also forms the central device in the departmental seal.
		The flag of the Deputy Secretary of Defense was approved by the President on April 20, 1949, for the use of the Under Secretary of Defense, who was then the second ranking official of the department.
		The flag for assistant secretaries of defense (also used by the General Counsel of the department) is the same as that of the Deputy Secretary, but with red stars rather than blue.
	mysite.verizon.net /vzeohzt4/Seaflags/personal/osd.html (818 words)

	Vice President of the United States - Ceremonial Office
		Former Office of the Secretary of the Navy
		In addition to the Vice President's Office in the West Wing, the Vice President and his staff maintain a set of offices in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), which is located next to the West Wing on the White House premises.
		Sixteen secretaries of the Navy occupied the office from 1879 until 1921.
	www.whitehouse.gov /vicepresident/ovp.html (555 words)

	DOD (United States Department of Defense) - Historical background, Dod resources, █ further reading:
		Led by the president, as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, with the advice of the secretary of defense and the National Security Council (NSC), DOD is made up of the military services and the unified commands, whose deployment is coordinated by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
		The Office of the Secretary of Defense carries out policy by assignments to the military departments, which train and equip the military forces; the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), who plans and coordinates military deployment and operations with other JCS members; and the unified commands, which conduct and carry out military operations.
		Washington, D.C.: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1997.
	www.espionageinfo.com /De-Eb/DOD-United-States-Department-of-Defense.html (2007 words)

	President, Vice President and Cabinet Officers
		The flagstaff ornament for the Secretary of the Navy's flag is a brass spread eagle.
		The Secretary of Commerce's flag is displayed aboard vessels and installations of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration when he pays official visits to them, according to the same rules used by the Navy and Coast Guard.
		The Secretary's flag is blue with the departmental shield in the center in white and a white star in each corner.
	mysite.verizon.net /vzeohzt4/Seaflags/personal/SrOff.html (1257 words)

	Defense Secretary Talks to Belvoir Soldiers
		Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told Soldiers that he would hold accountable those responsible for outpatient conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center when he spoke at an Enlisted Breakfast at Fort Belvoir's Community Club on March 1.
		The day before he accepted the resignation of Army Secretary Frances Harvey, Gates told those at the gathering that he was very concerned about reports of substandard conditions at Walter Reed.
		He also noted that this year's Defense Department budget request continues to focus on improving the standard of living of service members and includes nearly $3 billion to continue to improve enlisted barracks and housing, Gates said.
	www.army.mil /-news/2007/03/08/2181-defense-secretary-talks-to-belvoir-soldiers (948 words)

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		SCOPE This Instruction is applicable to all overseas field activities of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and to other activities assigned to OSD for administrative support.
		Should the office remain open, employees who work will be compensated at the holiday pay rate and employees who do not work will be granted holiday leave.
		The building or office in which the employees work is physically closed; or building services essential to proper performance of work are not operating.
	www.dtic.mil /whs/directives/corres/text/ai59p.txt (404 words)

	Department of Defense - dKosopedia
		The Department of Defense controls the United States armed forces and is headquartered at The Pentagon.
		The Department of Defense is an global organization possessing the most advanced weapons and electronic espionage systems in the world.
		United States Department of Defense in the Wiki BrainyEncyclopedia.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Department_of_Defense (628 words)

	Secretary Rumsfeld Outlines Space Initiatives - 8/5/01
		I never could have dreamed that in two years not only would we have the commission created, but we would have you as the secretary of Defense, who is the chairman of the commission, to really enact, or to begin the process of enacting many of the recommendations of that commission.
		Secretary, these announcements you've made seem to be managerial aimed at efficiency and elevating space in the national security apparatus.
		Secretary Powell, as well as the Department of Defense, decided that certain social contacts would be less appropriate, given the situation; that it really wasn't business as usual.
	www.cndyorks.gn.apc.org /caab/articles/rumsfeld.htm (5396 words)

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		This Directive applies to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Military Departments, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Defense Agencies, and the DoD Field Activities (hereafter referred to collectively as “the DoD Components”).
		The law of war encompasses all international law for the conduct of hostilities binding on the United States or its individual citizens, including treaties and international agreements to which the United States is a party, and applicable customary international law.
		The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence shall ensure that the Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, shall provide information from the intelligence community to the Secretary of the Army and to the Commanders of the Combatant Commands, consistent with their respective obligations under subsections 5.6.
	www.au.af.mil /au/awc/awcgate/dod/d510077p.txt (1822 words)

	Clark Clifford, Secretary of Defense, United States of America
		After an assignment to assess the state of readiness at naval bases on the West Coast, he was drawn into the White House in 1944, where he began a career, as the columnist James Reston once put it, of rescuing American presidents from disaster.
		It fell to Clifford to be Secretary of State George Marshall's adversary on the issue of recognition of Israel.
		She also decorated her husband's law offices and his office at the Pentagon, when he served as secretary of Defense in the final months of the Johnson administration.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /cclifford.htm (5126 words)

	Pentagon Terminates Office of Strategic Influence
		Secretary, the president said yesterday that you and he were reading from virtually the same page, paraphrasing, on the Pentagon's controversial new Office of Strategic Information.
		Secretary, from the outset, though, within days after September 11th, I think you were one of the first in the administration to stand here and say it's imperative for the United States to reach out and in fact educate the rest of the world, if not the Muslim world --
		And that office was serving as the linkage with the White House and the Department of State and the rest of the government on the subject of information.
	www.fas.org /sgp/news/2002/02/dod022602.html (867 words)

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		Represent the Secretary of Defense on all domestic weapons of mass destruction CBRNE-CM matters outside the Department in accordance with Presidential Decision Directive 39 (reference (b)) and Presidential Decision Directive 62 (reference (c)).
		Any weapon, device, or material that is intended or has the capability to cause death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of people through the accidental or deliberate release, dissemination or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals or their precursors; a disease organism; or radiation or radioactivity, to include large scale high explosives.
		The 50 States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the former trust Territories of the Pacific Islands, the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the District of Columbia, or any political subdivision thereof.
	www.dtic.mil /whs/directives/corres/text/d51071p.txt (1211 words)

	US CODE: Title 10,192. Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities: oversight by the Secretary of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities: oversight by the Secretary of Defense
		Program and Budget Review.— The Secretary of Defense shall establish procedures to ensure that there is full and effective review of the program recommendations and budget proposals of each Defense Agency and Department of Defense Field Activity.
		The Secretary shall establish procedures under which information required for review of the National Security Agency shall be obtained.
	www4.law.cornell.edu /uscode/html/uscode10/usc_sec_10_00000192----000-.html (316 words)

	Robert Gates Takes Oath as US Defense Secretary
		The new U.S. Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, took office Monday, with a private swearing-in at the White House and a public ceremony later at the Pentagon.
		Robert Gates comes to the job of defense secretary after spending most of the last four decades in government service - starting in an entry-level job at the Central Intelligence Agency, and rising to lead that agency, as well as to serve as deputy national security adviser to President Bush's father.
		His press secretary says Rumsfeld will have a government office near the Pentagon for several months to sort through his papers and provide any further help that is needed in the transition to Secretary Gates' leadership.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-12-18-voa57.cfm (870 words)

	Military Funeral Honors Law
		Unless a bugler is a member of the detail, the funeral honors detail shall play a recorded version of Taps using audio equipment which the detail shall provide if adequate audio equipment is not otherwise available for use at the funeral.
		For members of a veterans organization or other organization referred to in subsection (b)(2) articles of clothing that, as determined by the Secretary concerned, are appropriate as a civilian uniform for persons participating in a funeral honors detail.
		The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report not later than January 31 of each year beginning with 2001 and ending with 2005 on the experience of the Department of Defense under this section.
	www.militaryfuneralhonors.osd.mil /law.html (942 words)

	Understanding National Defense University
		The National Defense University educates military and civilian leaders through teaching, research, and outreach in national security strategy, national military strategy, and national resource strategy; joint and multinational operations; information strategies, operations, and resource management; acquisition; and regional defense and security studies.
		Established in September 1997, the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies has the mission of developing civilian specialists in defense and military matters, from all of the Western Hemisphere’s democratic countries, including the United States.
		The Office of the Secretary of Defense initiated the first Defense Leadership and Management Program (DLAMP) course at National Defense University in 1997 to serve as a focal point for “joint” civilian leader training, education, and development.
	www.ndu.edu /catalog/catalog1body.htm (2530 words)

	Beth McCormick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		She was responsible for the negotiation, monitoring and general conduct for NASA's international relations and assisted in developing cooperative opportunities especially in the areas of space science and aeronautics.
		McCormick's career in Government began as a Presidential Management Intern with the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 1983.
		She served in numerous positions in the Office of the Secretary, including as the Senior Advisor to the Defense and Space negotiations between the United States and Soviet Union in Geneva, Switzerland.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/codez/new/mccormick.html (234 words)

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