Dan Caldwell

So the combatant commanders system, the current system was established under Goldwater Nichols.

Reorganize the combatant commands.

You don't need, I believe, Congress to get involved.

However, there was one idea floated in this article that I think is very dangerous.

And this is idea of a joint task force war, which it doesn't seem like is an option now, but that would give more power to

to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff operational control, which in my view would be against Goldwater-Nichols.

But again, I don't think the secretary or the White House is supporting that, to be clear.

Two places, my ex-account at Dan D. Caldwell, and then I'm now a foreign policy fellow at American Moment, so AmericanMoment.org.

I can never see the Russians agreeing to something that is, in effect, de facto NATO membership.

They have a vote here.

And the president has pointed this out.

And I think that they will continue to fight if that is a big part of the deal.

Now, there's a million different ways to do security guarantees that doesn't involve necessarily committing US or NATO troops.

They may accept something that is along the lines of we'll agree to provide the Ukrainians defensive weapon systems or certain types of support or things like that.

But again, I think the Russians have made clear this is their primary issue.

It's the issue of Ukrainian alignment.

It's more important than territory to them.

It's whether or not Ukraine is going to be part of an alliance that they view as a security threat.

So I can never see them agreeing to something that would in effect make Ukraine a de facto member of NATO.

As Ben Hardwell points out, actually could be a more powerful security guarantee than NATO if some of the reporting is correct.