Defense Reorganization Acts
Defense Reorganization Acts (1950, 1953, 1958).Following quasi‐unification of the armed forces in the Department of Defense, created by the National Security Act of 1947, Congress passed the Army Reorganization Act of 1950 to achieve simplicity and flexibility in the army's statutory organization. The law revised provisions, some of which dated back to the War of 1812, and confirmed many of the changes made by executive action during World War II. It made the secretary of the army, now aided by an expanded staff, directly responsible for conducting all the affairs of the army. Congress abandoned appropriating funds directly to each technical service, and instead authorized the secretary of the army to make the allocations and to determine the number and relative strengths of the arms and services. In 1950, those included three combat arms: Infantry,...
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