2. Executive Office of the President · Minor
Have NSC and OMB review war plans and global force allocations
Printed page 52 2. Executive Office of the President
“Both should also conduct reviews of operational war plans and global force planning and allocations with the Secretary of Defense to align them with presidential priorities and review all key policy and guidance intended for implementation by the heads of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the Intelligence Community before they are authorized for distribution.”
What has happened
- Not started
No public record of NSC and OMB reviews of operational war plans or global force planning and allocations. This is classified work by nature: war plans, force allocation and the policy guidance that goes to Defense, State and the Intelligence Community are not published, and neither NSPM-1 nor any other unclassified directive in the window assigns the NSC and OMB the review role the Quote describes. NSPM-1 gives the Deputies Committee a general remit to monitor implementation and seats the Deputy Director of OMB as a regular invitee, which is the closest the public record comes.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Negative search. Read NSPM-1 in full; listed all 277 executive orders and every presidential memorandum in the federal records we keep and search by title; searched those records for “war plan”, “force planning” and “global force” — nothing. A classified directive could exist and would not appear. Recorded as not started on the public record, which is what this site tracks.
- Action
- other
- Object
- Operational war plans and global force planning and allocations
- ID
- 64