General urges reconsideration of law undercutting JCS

UNKINDEST CUT: Marine Corps Gen. James Jones, NATO's supreme commander, says taking the Joint Chiefs of Staff out of the command loop was an unintended consequence of the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act that he'd like to fix. The law concentrated authority in the combatant commanders, leaving the Joint...

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