Board of Joint Chiefs of Staff

• The General Technical Secretariat of the General Headquarters.
• The Joint Staff of the Board, constituted in a balanced way by members of each of the three branches of the Armed Forces. The command of the Board fell to a divisional general or vice admiral of the same scale and group as the members of the Board, at the proposal of the same.
• The Higher Center for National Defence Studies.
• The Command of the General Headquarters.
• Legal Service.

Functions

• Provide technical advice in the preparation of the military policy to be formulated by the National Defence Board.
• Formulate and propose, for approval by the Government, the Joint Strategic Plan, determining, within it, the joint objective of the Force.
• Exercise the strategic direction of said Plan and coordinate the plans of the three branches of the Armed Forces derived from it.
• Establish the doctrine of Unified Action and, where appropriate, the doctrine of Combined Action with the Armies of other countries.
• Prepare combined plans with armies of other nations, when said plans were joint.
• Propose to the Prime Minister the creation of the unified and specified commands, as well as the persons who should exercise it and who, under the direct dependency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were necessary for the execution of the Joint Strategic Plan, defining mission, means and areas of action.
• Promote, in coordination with the National Mobilization Service, the preparation of integrated plans for general mobilization.

  List of presidents of the Board of Joint Chiefs of Staff