ABSTRACT
The setting up of new management structures has accompanied the efforts since 1977 to establish, once and for all, a unified military management structure within the central organization of defense. In the autumn of 1983, Defense Minister Narcis Serra Serra presented a proposal for the reform of the central organization of defense, which altered Title 1 of the law governing the principles underlying defense and the organization of the armed forces of July 1, 1980. The morphology of the central structures of defense reflects the nature of the existing political regime. The management and control of the armed forces in the exceptional situation are concerned only with the defense of the constitutional order. The same conditions apply when necessary measures have to be taken for the defense of the territory. The Senior Defense Staff also often seemed more a link in the chain of the president’s decisions than an autonomous expression of the management of the armed forces.
