The president and his civilian advisors could not understand why the military seemed incapable of providing scalable options for various goals and outcomes to inform his decision-making.
What does CIVAD stand for?
CIVAD stands for Civilian Advisors (NATO)
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- Charge-Induced Voltage Alteration
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- Civil Affairs
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- Centres d'Initiatives pour Valoriser l'Agriculture et Milieu Rural (French: Centers for Enhancing Agriculture and Rural Initiatives)
- Civilian Application
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- Campus Information and Visitor Center (University of Wisconsin; Madison, WI)
Samples in periodicals archive:
Only the commander in chief, his top civilian advisors, the military, and much of the executive branch can run a war and run it successfully.
Again, it appears that one of the unintended consequences of Goldwater-Nichols legislation in 1986 was to reduce civilian influence in the office of the secretary of defense and give the Joint Chiefs too much influence over its civilian advisors.
Well researched and effectively written, the book suggests that the Vietnam War was lost in Washington though sins of commission by President Lyndon Johnson and his civilian advisors and by sins of omission by the nation's highest ranking military leaders.