(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.
Congress has the power to declare war and the power of the purse. The President has the power to negotiate treaties, but the Senate must ratify them. Given this shared responsibility for foreign policy, the branches must work together in order for our foreign policy to have coherence. There are always options in foreign policy. 2  Executive branch officials tend to treat Congress as an obstacle to be overcome, rather than as a potential partner. 3  Many officials believe that Congress is ignorant of sophisticated foreign policy issues and only gets in the way of good policy.