Download or read book Commander s Handbook for Joint Support to Distributed Forces written by U. S. Joint Command and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a pre-doctrinal non-authoritative document that provides information on how JTF and component headquarters might plan for and provide capabilities to tactical units, principally battalion level and below, when they are employed widely dispersed and outside of mutually supporting range of other ground units. Although focused on ground units, there are significant implications for the air and naval components of the joint force as well. The document serves as a bridge between experimentation and current best practices and the potential incorporation of value-added ideas in joint doctrine, education, and training. This handbook is the result of study, concept development, experimentation, and analysis that began in 2005 when the Marine Corps released a white paper entitled A Concept for Distributed Operations. This concept was intended "...to promote discussion and to generate ideas for specific combat development initiatives" in the context of "...the irregular challenges of Small Wars." It focused on enabling small units to function with greater operational initiative and independence. In response to the concept, the Marine Corps Combat Development Command initiated a number of activities, including limited objective experiments conducted by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. USJFCOM began a study of joint distributed operations (JDO) based on three "warfighter challenges" (Forcible Entry and Distributed Operations, Lift, and Mobility and Sustainment), which the Marine Corps submitted to USJFCOM J9 in 2009 and 2010 in conjunction with USJFCOM's annual Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Campaign Plan. As part of the USJFCOM JDO project, J9 developed an informal Concept for Joint Distributed Operations in November 2009. This concept and previous Marine Corps efforts informed a USJFCOM-led campaign of experimentation conducted in 2009 and 2010 intended to identify capabilities that could contribute to the successful execution of operations by widely dispersed organizations. This handbook identifies various issues and considerations for conducting these operations based on insights from ongoing operations and experimentation results. USJFCOM's Joint Operating Environment (JOE) provides the future environmental context within which to examine these issues and considerations. The JOE states that "The nature of the human condition will guarantee that uncertainty, ambiguity, and surprise will dominate the course of events." It continues with a conclusion that surprise will be inevitable even as joint forces prepare for a wide range of military operations, and that commanders at all levels will face complex, dynamic, and unpredictable situations for which established concepts and doctrine can provide only a solid foundation as a point of departure. This handbook is based on Service and joint lessons learned data; joint, multi-national, and Service doctrine and procedures; training and education material from CAPSTONE, KEYSTONE, and PINNACLE senior executive education programs; joint and Service exercise observations, facilitated after-action reviews and commander's summary reports; related joint concepts and experimentation results; joint exercises and trip reports; and joint publication assessment reports. The handbook also includes the results of a two-year analysis and experimentation effort requested by the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and conducted by USJFCOM, with participation by all the Services and many international partners. The experimentation campaign encompassed an analytical wargame, three constructive simulation efforts, a "human-in-the-loop experiment," and focused seminar sessions with retired senior commanders and currently serving officers with recent operational experience. The experimentation effort focused on stressing potential joint solutions in a distinctly different operational environment.

Download or read book Commander s Handbook for Joint Support to Distributed Forces written by U S Joint Forces Command and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a pre-doctrinal non-authoritative document that provides information on how JTF and component headquarters might plan for and provide capabilities to tactical units, principally battalion level and below, when they are employed widely dispersed and outside of mutually supporting range of other ground units. Although focused on ground units, there are significant implications for the air and naval components of the joint force as well. The document serves as a bridge between experimentation and current best practices and the potential incorporation of value-added ideas in joint doctrine, education, and training.

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Download or read book Commander s handbook for joint time sensitive targeting written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is designed for joint force commanders and their staffs to assist them in rapid target engagement. It is meant to be a resource tool for the joint force commander joint force headquarters and the joint force components. Though consistent with joint and Service doctrine it is not a doctrinal publication. Joint Publication 3-60 Joint Doctrine for Targeting, 17 January 2002 is the authoritative publication and has an appendix for time-sensitive targeting considerations. As we learned from experiences in such locales as Iraq, Kosovo and Afghanistan our ability to engage time-sensitive targets in a timely efficient and effective manner is a requisite for successful military operations. US forces are faced with an ever-increasing threat from adversaries that pose (or could pose) a direct danger and demand an immediate response. The complexities of engaging time-sensitive targets require joint force commanders and their staffs to fully appreciate the coordination and integration that are required to minimize the chance of fratricide and other collateral effects. This Handbook provides examples from combatant commands and joint task forces to assist in the prosecution of time-sensitive targets.

Download or read book 21st Century U S Military Manuals written by U. S. Navy and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joint Force Land Component Commander Handbook (JFLCC) provides guidance for planning and conducting land operations requiring the close coordination of Army forces and Marine Corps forces under the control of a joint force land component commander within a joint operations area. It presents considerations and options that joint force commanders can employ when designating a joint force land component commander and describes the authority and responsibilities of a joint force land component commander. This handbook describes guidance for establishing the command relationship based on the joint force commander's concept of operations. It addresses formation, functions, and organization of the joint force land component commander. It also discusses the operational questions of who, what, when, and how of operations in support of major operations or campaigns by a joint force commander. It is not the intent of this handbook to supplant approved joint doctrine; nor is it the intent to restrict the authority of the joint force commander from organizing the force and executing the mission in a manner he deems most appropriate to ensure unity of effort in the accomplishment of the overall mission. The guidance in this handbook applies to combatant commanders, sub-joint task forces, and subordinate components of these commands.

Download or read book Joint Force Land Component Commander Handbook FM 3 31 McWp 3 40 7 written by Us Marine Corps and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook describes guidance for establishing the command relationship based on the joint force commander's concept of operations. It addresses formation, functions, and organization of the joint force land component commander. It also discusses the operational questions of who, what, when, and how of operations in support of major operations or campaigns by a joint force commander. It is not the intent of this handbook to supplant approved joint doctrine; nor is it the intent to restrict the authority of the joint force commander from organizing the force and executing the mission in a manner he deems most appropriate to ensure unity of effort in the accomplishment of the overall mission.

Download or read book U S Joint Forces Army Command Commander s Handbook for Strategic Communication and Communication Strategy Joint Warfighting Center Covering Afghanistan Iraq Al Qaeda War on Terror Petraeus written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As U.S. Joint Forces Command continues to interact with the combatant commands and Services, we recognize that there is no universal agreement on the best way to plan and execute a strategic communication and related activities strategy. Additionally, there is very little doctrinal guidance, consequently we have updated this pre-doctrinal handbook to help joint force commanders and their staffs understand alternative perspectives, techniques, procedures, "best practices," and organizational options. Strategic communication must be at the heart of U.S. Government efforts to inform and influence key audiences in support of U.S. national interests, policies, and objectives. We seek to achieve this influence by understanding and engaging them with coordinated programs, plans, themes, messages, images, and products synchronized with the actions of all instruments of national power. The U.S. military plays an instrumental supporting role in strategic communication, primarily through information operations, public affairs, visual information, and defense support to public diplomacy. Strategic communication considerations should be associated with every military operation across the entire range of military operations from routine, recurring military activities in peacetime through major operations. Every commander should develop a coordinated and synchronized communication strategy and provide guidance for the support and execution of a coherent effort. Effectively synchronized strategic communication has the potential to achieve national, theater-strategic and operational-level objectives in a manner that could lessen the requirement for combat in many operations. This is especially the case in circumstances where the focus of operations is on gaining and maintaining support of the relevant population, such as in counterinsurgency and other operations associated with irregular warfare. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * CHAPTER I * STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES * - Preserving Influence * - Providing Unified Action * - Guidance and Capability Shortfalls * - Addressing Shortfalls * CHAPTER II * ESTABLISHED POLICY AND GUIDANCE * - National Strategic Communication * - Department of State Organization, Processes, and Products * - Department of Defense Organization, Processes, and Guidance * - Joint Doctrine * - Definition Inadequacies * - Nesting * - The Battle of the Narrative * CHAPTER III * CURRENT PRACTICES AND INITIATIVES * SECTION A: JOINT FORCE PRACTICES * - General * - Option 1: Increased Command Emphasis * - Option 2: Tasking an Existing Staff Leader * - Option 3: Direct Planning Team Integration * - Option 4: Centralized Control of All Communication Strategy-Related Activities Under a Separate Directorate * - Option 5: Communication Strategy Director With Small Coordination Staff and Supporting Communication Strategy Working Group * - Key Leader Engagement * - Cards * - Dialogue * - MNF-I Best Practices * - Operational-Level Challenges and Enablers * - USSOUTHCOM's Mani Effort * SECTION B. OTHER STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION INITIATIVES * - Strategic Communication Joint Integrating Concept Development * - Strategic Communication Education * CHAPTER IV * PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT * - General * - Understanding the Operational Environment * - Planning Sequence and Key Considerations * - Some Short, Medium, and Long-Term Planning Techniques * - Assessment * CHAPTER V * OPERATIONAL IMPLICATIONS * - General * - Policy * - Doctrine * - Organization * - Training * - Materiel * - Leadership and Education * - Personnel * - Facilities * - Conclusion

Download or read book Commander s Handbook for Joint Time Sensitive Targeting written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is designed for joint force commanders and their staffs to assist them in rapid target engagement. It is meant to be a resource tool for the joint force commander joint force headquarters and the joint force components. Though consistent with joint and Service doctrine it is not a doctrinal publication. Joint Publication 3-60 Joint Doctrine for Targeting, 17 January 2002 is the authoritative publication and has an appendix for time-sensitive targeting considerations. As we learned from experiences in such locales as Iraq, Kosovo and Afghanistan our ability to engage time-sensitive targets in a timely efficient and effective manner is a requisite for successful military operations. US forces are faced with an ever-increasing threat from adversaries that pose (or could pose) a direct danger and demand an immediate response. The complexities of engaging time-sensitive targets require joint force commanders and their staffs to fully appreciate the coordination and integration that are required to minimize the chance of fratricide and other collateral effects. This Handbook provides examples from combatant commands and joint task forces to assist in the prosecution of time-sensitive targets.

Download or read book Joint Officer Handbook JOH Staffing and Action Guide written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Staff. J-7 and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical and easily accessible guide for those new to the joint environment and staff assignments. With input from serving action officers and senior leaders, here are the competencies and behaviors of highly effective and successful joint staff officers which provide a roadmap for career self development. This is the most current joint information available for managing staff activities.

Download or read book Joint Mission Essential Task List JMETL Development Handbook written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of JMETL development involves the examination of the missions of a combatant commander, subordinate joint force commander, and functional or Service component commanders in order to establish required warfighting capabilities consisting of joint tasks, conditions, and standards. This handbook is intended to assist the combatant commands describe required capabilities in a form useful in the planning, execution and assessment phases of the joint training system. Further, it should aid resource providers and the Joint Staff in examining and coordinating joint training requirements among a number of combatant commands with diverse missions. The next phase of the joint training system begins with the development of a joint training plan delineating how combatant commanders allocate their joint training resources to meet JMETL requirements.

Download or read book Commander s Handbook for the Joint Interagency Coordination Group written by Joint Warfighting Center and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Scope The Commander's Handbook for the Joint Interagency Coordination Group provides techniques and procedures that are evolving in the joint community and being incorporated into joint publications. 2. Purpose This handbook serves as a bridge between the evolving JIACG and its migration into doctrine. As such, it is intended to inform doctrine writers, educators, and trainers about the JIACG and its potential for further inclusion in joint doctrine, education, and training. It fills the existing void between emerging concepts and published joint doctrine. It also presents well developed definitions that have been harmonized with current and evolving joint doctrine and discusses those "best practices" that have proven of value during on-going military operations, exercises, and experimentation. This handbook provides potential joint and Service users a definitive publication on "how" a JIACG may be organized and employed to support interagency coordination at the operational level, particularly during the planning and execution of a joint operation. 3. Application The handbook is meant to educate the joint community about the JIACG and to offer some useful techniques and procedures that can be used in the combatant commands by joint force commanders and their staffs. The handbook focuses on JIACG coordination of interagency efforts in deploying and employing joint forces in concert with the other instruments of national power. 4. Command The recommendations in this handbook are based on best practices observed during current operations, exercises, experimentation, and prototyping, as well as existing joint doctrine. Commanders may tailor specific elements to conform to their individual staff requirements.

Download or read book Commander s Handbook for Strategic Communication and Communication Strategy written by Joint Warfighting Center and published by . This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As U.S. Joint Forces Command continues to interact with the combatant commands and Services, we recognize that there is no universal agreement on the best way to plan and execute a strategic communication and related activities strategy. Additionally, there is very little doctrinal guidance, consequently we have updated this pre-doctrinal handbook to help joint force commanders and their staffs understand alternative perspectives, techniques, procedures, "best practices," and organizational options. Strategic communication must be at the heart of U.S. Government efforts to inform and influence key audiences in support of U.S. national interests, policies, and objectives. We seek to achieve this influence by understanding and engaging them with coordinated programs, plans, themes, messages, images, and products synchronized with the actions of all instruments of national power. The U.S. military plays an instrumental supporting role in strategic communication, primarily through information operations, public affairs, visual information, and defense support to public diplomacy. Strategic communication considerations should be associated with every military operation across the entire range of military operations from routine, recurring military activities in peacetime through major operations. Every commander should develop a coordinated and synchronized communication strategy and provide guidance for the support and execution of a coherent effort. Effectively synchronized strategic communication has the potential to achieve national, theaterstrategic and operational-level objectives in a manner that could lessen the requirement for combat in many operations. This is especially the case in circumstances where the focus of operations is on gaining and maintaining support of the relevant population, such as in counterinsurgency and other operations associated with irregular warfare. During the past five years, understanding of strategic communication and its impact on joint operations has continued to evolve across the joint community. These experiences and insights are described in this handbook. I encourage you to use the information in this handbook and provide feedback to help us capture value-added ideas for incorporation in emerging joint doctrine.

Download or read book Handbook for Military Support to Essential Services and Critical Infrastructure written by Us Joint Forces Command and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook for Military Support to Essential Services and Critical Infrastructure is Book Two in a set of five handbooks developed to assist the joint force commander design, plan, and execute a whole-of-government approach. Included with the series is an overview J7/J9 Pamphlet, Executive Summary of the Unified Action Handbook Series, that describes the handbooks, suggests how they should be used, and identifies the significant interrelationships among them. This handbook defines services essential to sustain human life during stability operations (water, sanitation, transportation, medical, etc.), the infrastructure needed to deliver such services, and potential joint force responsibilities.

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Download or read book Field Manual FM 3 31 MCWP 3 40 7 Joint Force Land Component Commander Handbook JFLCC December 2001 written by United States Government US Army and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOPE This handbook provides guidance for planning and conducting land operations requiring the close coordination of Army forces and Marine Corps forces under the control of a joint force land component commander within a joint operations area. It presents considerations and options that joint force commanders can employ when designating a joint force land component commander and describes the authority and responsibilities of a joint force land component commander. PURPOSE This handbook describes guidance for establishing the command relationship based on the joint force commander's concept of operations. It addresses formation, functions, and organization of the joint force land component commander. It also discusses the operational questions of who, what, when, and how of operations in support of major operations or campaigns by a joint force commander. It is not the intent of this handbook to supplant approved joint doctrine; nor is it the intent to restrict the authority of the joint force commander from organizing the force and executing the mission in a manner he deems most appropriate to ensure unity of effort in the accomplishment of the overall mission. APPLICATION The guidance in this handbook applies to combatant commanders, sub-joint task forces, and subordinate components of these commands. This handbook is used for guidance and reference only. If conflicts arise between the contents of this publication and the contents of joint publications, the joint publications will take precedence for the activities of joint forces.

Download or read book Integrated Financial Operations Commander s Handbook written by Us Joint Forces Command and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrated financial operations are the integration, synchronization, prioritization, and targeting of fiscal resources and capabilities along with the related efforts of interagency and multinational partners and nongovernmental organizations against an enemy, and in support of the population, combined with minimizing the possibility that such resources/capabilities will be diverted or inadvertently misused to support an enemy's financial networks. Further, integrated financial operations encompasses more than simple fiscal policy and oversight-they entail using finances to support operational objectives. Accordingly, the joint force commander requires the ability to manage limited financial resources within the Department of Defense and coordinate with other US Government and host nation agencies, multinational forces, intergovernmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations to fully utilize financial resources in the accomplishment of operational objectives.

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