Aspin sought to strengthen the office by having it take control over personnel, technology, and readiness functions performed throughout the Defense Department.He also reorganized it along lines comparable to those found in the State Department, creating such positions as assistant secretaries of defense for economic and environmental security, and for democracy and human rights. The logic was to make the Defense Department a more effective player in the policy-making process. In doing so, Aspin also eliminated some of the more important posts found in the secretary of defense's office: the assistant secretaries for international security policy and international security affairs. Terming this new structure as "ineffective," Aspin's successor, William Perry, moved quickly to return the office to its former shape.