TY - BOOK AU - COLE Ronald H AU - POOLE Walter S ED - United States. Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint History Office TI - The history of the Unified Command Plan 1946-1993 SN - (pbk.) PY - 1995/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - Joint History Office KW - ARMED FORCES KW - COMMAND KW - HISTORY KW - JOINT OPERATIONS KW - MILITARY PERSONNEL KW - STRATEGY KW - UNITED STATES N2 - Traces fifty years of development of unified command of the U.S. armed forces, including its origins in the Second World War; command arrangements for the Vietnam War; the control of strategic nuclear forces; STRATCOM, TRANSCOM and USACOM. UCP's provisions demonstrate a gradual move away from protection of traditional Service prerogatives towards more unity of effort ER -