(September 2015) The Finnish Defence Command (Finnish: PÃ¤Ã¤esikunta, Swedish: Huvudstaben) is the headquarters of the Finnish Defence Forces. Its duty is to care for the maintenance, planning and preparedness of the military defence of the realm.
Making foreign policy requires the participation of the President, the executive branch, Congress and the public. Conducting foreign policy, on the other hand, is the exclusive prerogative of the President and his subordinates in the executive branch. The distinction is fuzzy but important: you make policy when you decide to protect the security of the Persian Gulf; you conduct policy when you send the Navy to do it.
Report Abuse. Forming foreign policy is generally recognized as an executive power (in other words, for the president). Congress's main constitutional power in relation to foreign policy is the power to declare war. Many experts think that this power is dead because we have been in dozens of foreign conflicts in the past few decades without formally declaring war.