---
kind: "unit"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
key: "ch1"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 1"
heading: "Council of National Defense"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/ch1"
sections_count: 6
---

# Chapter 1 — Council of National Defense

Title 50 — War and National Defense

## Sections

- [§1. Creation, purpose, and composition of council](/usc/50/1.md)
- [§2. Advisory commission](/usc/50/2.md)
- [§3. Duties of council](/usc/50/3.md)
- [§4. Rules and regulations; subordinate bodies and committees](/usc/50/4.md)
- [§5. Reports of subordinate bodies and committees; unvouchered expenditures](/usc/50/5.md)
- [§6. Repealed.](/usc/50/6.md)