Download or read book Joint Fire Support in 2020 Development of a Future Joint Fires Systems Architecture for Immediate Unplanned Targets written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States military has continually strived to develop systems and procedures that attempt to maximize the effectiveness and improve the collaborative effects of fire support across the spectrum of warfare. Despite improvements in the interoperability of the Department of Defense service components, there continue to be difficulties involved with executing emergent Joint Fires in a timely manner in support of the commander. In this context, the Joint Fire Support in 2020 project applied systems engineering procedures and principles to develop functional, physical, and operational architectures that maximize rapid battlefield effects through efficient target provider pairings. The unplanned, immediate joint fire support requests, and the architectures that enable the rapid pairing and tasking of fire support providers to fulfill those requests, were the emphasis of the study. Through modeling, simulation, and qualitative assessments of existing and planned command and control systems and organizations, a Centralized Joint Fire Support Network that incorporates and consolidates the various cross service fire support functions, was chosen as the preferred evolutionary development path to a fully Distributed Joint Fire Support Network. The Project Team recommended several doctrinal, organizational, training, tactics, and materiel acquisition (DOTMLPF) solutions and identified areas of continued effort and study.
Download or read book Joint Publication JP 3 09 Joint Fire Support April 2019 written by United States Government Us Army and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual, Joint Publication JP 3-09 Joint Fire Support April 2019: Provides an overview of joint fire support, scheme of fires, and the relationship between joint fire support and joint targeting. It describes joint force command structure and function, component fires command and control organizations, and support relationships employed to conduct joint fires. Presents the joint fire support planning process, both pre-execution (operations planning) and during execution (joint targeting cycle). Discusses considerations and factors involved during joint fire support execution. Presents the process to assess joint fire support.
Download or read book Analysis of the Function to Coordinate Synchronize and Integrate Fire Support as Accomplished by an Army Corps Acting as a Joint Task Force written by Harold T. Fields and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Research Product provides a detailed description of joint fires as accomplished by an Army Corps acting as a Joint Task Force. It is one in a series that describes the tasks, performers, and outcomes for the combat function of Coordinate, Synchronize, and Integrate Fire Support. Assessment criteria are provided for reports in this series except for the one at Brigade level. Reports focus on fire support at the echelons of Brigade, Division, and Corps and to related functions at Corps as a Joint Task Force. This series of Research Products provides resource documents for military and civilian trainers to assist in the design and evaluation of single service and joint training. Doctrinal writers may use these descriptions as a basis for modifying current doctrine or for the formulation of future doctrine."--DTIC.
Download or read book Operational Fires for the 21st Century The Argument for a Joint Fires Coordinator written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A void exists in current joint doctrine concerning operational fires for the joint task force. This vacuum is doubly troubling when the proliferation of increasingly capable information management systems, digital communications links, all weather target acquisition assets, and precision attack systems is considered. The Persian Gulf War highlighted weaknesses in inter-service cooperation of fire support, but seven years after the conflict, substantive changes to resolve these doctrinal problems remain unmade. As part of a solution, this paper argues for the creation of a Joint Forces Fire Support Coordinator and a Joint Fire Support Cell to coordinate operational fires for the joint force commander. It further asserts the continued viability of the Fire Support Coordination Line while suggesting the need for a doctrinal boundary delineating the areas of responsibility of the land and air component commanders. This work uses data on the technical capabilities and interoperability of service component systems to demonstrate that operational fires, offering decisive battlefield effects, are reasonable to assume in the near future. Operational theories from students at the Command and General Staff College, Army War College, and Naval War College are used to support the argument that many of those assets now dedicated to air interdiction and deep attack by individual services should be fused into a unified combat power capable of effecting decisive results at the operational level.
Download or read book Joint Fires and Targeting Handbook written by U. S. Command and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joint Fires and Targeting Handbook provides established and evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures used by personnel involved in day-to-day joint fires and targeting processes. This handbook serves as a bridge between current operational-level doctrine and tactical-level employment at the joint force level. It is intended to inform doctrine writers, educators, and trainers about the joint targeting process. It supplements, not replaces, existing joint or Service doctrine. The handbook is designed for use by personnel assigned to (or participating in) a joint targeting effort. It also presents well developed definitions that have been harmonized with joint doctrine and discusses those "best practices" that have proven of value during on-going military operations, exercises, and experimentation. The handbook is meant to educate the joint community about the joint fires and targeting processes and to offer some useful techniques and procedures that can be used in the combatant commands and subordinate units by commanders and their staffs.
Download or read book The Answer Is written by Mark H. Ayers and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the question of who should plan and control joint fires beyond the fire support coordination line (FSCL). Since the Gulf War, the Army and Air Force have met at the annual Army-Air Force Warfighter Talks to reconcile doctrinal disparities in order to ensure their preeminence as the world's finest air-land team. At the 1994 Talks, a working group was chartered to tackle the contentious issues that impact on the development of Joint doctrine. One such issue was the friction over who should plan and control joint fires beyond FSCL. Overlapping areas of responsibility create questions over control of combat assets. On a dynamic battlefield, the military cannot afford disagreements over targeting. As partners in the air-land team, the two services must have a mutual understanding of command relationships to ensure smooth and seamless operations throughout the theater. The contentious issue over who should plan and control the use of combat assets beyond the FSCL requires resolution in order to enhance the JFC's ability to maximize the effects of joint fires and minimize friction between the Services. ultimately, unresolved disagreements in a theater of war or operations could kill soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines. This monograph uses the Gulf War as case study to determine what lessons learned from that conflict helped shaped the Army's and Air Force's interpretations of how joint fires should be planned and controlled during a theater campaign. With interpretations identified, the author examines their impact on current and emerging service and joint doctrine. Finally an analysis of the doctrine will determine if the questions of who should plan and control joint fires beyond the FSCL is adequately addressed in current doctrine, emerging doctrine, or the issue requires further resolution.
Download or read book The New Army and Its Use of Joint Fires written by Randall T. Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fire Support Coordination Line written by Michael J. McMahon and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph addresses the question of whether the concept of the Fire Support Coordination Line (FSCL) should be included in future joint doctrine. The FSCL was originally designed as a concept to fulfill a requirement for deconfliction of fires between air and ground forces to prevent fratricide. As the concept evolved it became a permissive FSCM to allow the delivery of uncoordinated fires into an area that the ground commander could not reach with his organic fires. The concept has changed over time to become a more restrictive measure, limiting the ability of the commander to influence a portion of his AO directly. In essence, the FSCL is being used to deconflict fires, particularly at the operational level, rather than to facilitate the integration of complementary capabilities of joint systems and operations. Furthermore, though the FSCL was at one time an appropriate and necessary control measure because of technological limitations, tremendous advances in information-age technology and a new battlefield environment increasingly characterized by non-linear operations have made the concept of the FSCL irrelevant. In fact, the FSCL impedes the JFC from applying joint fires on the battlefield in the most effective and efficient manner possible. The fundamental conclusion of the paper is that the FSCL is a concept behind its time, and should be eliminated from joint doctrine. Commanders should use boundaries, to include forward boundaries, to achieve unity of effort within their AOs. The Joint Force Commander should control all assets that can be applied as operational fires through an Integrated Tasking Order, and should apportion control of resources to subordinate commanders to accomplish his intent. Within their AOs, commanders should continue to use other FSCM to mold their battlefield. Finally, advances in information technology must be exploited jointly so that commanders can integrate fully the complementary capabilities offered by the service component.
Download or read book Analysis of the Function to Coordinate Synchronize and Integrate Fire Support as Accomplished by a Corps written by Horace G. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Research Product provides a detailed description of fire support as accomplished by a Corps. It is one in a series that describes the tasks performers, and outcomes for the combat function of Coordinate, Synchronize, and Integrate Fire Support. Assessment criteria are provided for reports in this series except for the one at Brigade level. Reports focus on fire support at the echelons of Brigade, Division, and Corps and to related functions at Corps as a Joint Task Force. This series of Research Products provides resource documents for military and civilian trainers to assist in the design and evaluation of single service and joint training. Doctrinal writers may use these descriptions as a basis for modifying current doctrine or for the formulation of future doctrine."--DTIC.
Download or read book The Fire Support Coordination Line written by Michael J. McMahon and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experimenting with Fires Toward a New Operational Concept written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ring of Fire concept is a net-centric system under evaluation by the naval services. Its purpose is to provide the Joint Force Commander the ability to plan and execute joint fires in the littoral battlespace. Development of this joint netwbrked fires delivery system is based on the requirements of CINCs and operational commanders. The means for development and evaluation of the Ring of Fire is the Fleet Battle Experiment series. These experiments are an incremental process. User input is the basis for experiment design, and execution includes their participation. Analysis of the results, inclusion of increasingly complex capabilities, and a more sophisticated operating environment provide the foundation for future experimentation. Five Fleet Battle Experiments have taken place to date. Through them, the Ring of Fire has matured in size and scope from its initial sea-based unit level operations. By incorporating land-based and airborne sensors and weapons platform the Ring of Fire has evolved into a scalable, fully integrated maritime and ground engagement system. Further experimentation conducted in close cooperation with operational forces is necessary. Continuing the procedure in a variety of diverse environments will provide ;Lhe operational commander a joint fires system that is capable of supporting the entire range of conflict. Persistence in developing the Ring of Fire through the Fleet Battle Experiment process will also ensure the discovery of system inadequacies and address potential solutions.
Download or read book Doctrine for Joint Fire Support written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Self Synchronized Fires in Support of Ship to Objective Maneuver STOM written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-synchronized joint fires in a netted environment are not able to provide the timely and accurate fire support required by infantry units when conducting Ship-to-Objective Maneuver (STOM) operations. The Naval Warfare Development Command conducted Fleet Battle Experiment India (FBE-I) to test whether the engagement of time-critical targets (TCT) could be significantly reduced by employing a flattened, more automated command and control structure with a digital fires network that could rapidly share targeting information in order to accelerate both tactical decision making and engagement of emergent targets. Under evaluation was the ability of the Navy's operational concept of Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) to aid in adequately satisfying the requirements of responsive and accurate fires delivered in support of the Marine Corps operational concept of Ship-to-Objective Maneuver (STOM). It was shown that netted fires could be used against targets that do not pose an immediate threat to friendly forces (battlefield preparation). The ability to self-synchronize fires to fulfill STOM requirements for TCT engagements has not been proven. Too many questions remain unanswered to determine the validity of rapid self-synchronized joint fires. Without timely and accurate long-range fire support, STOM will not be a viable operational concept for the Marine Corps.
Download or read book Doctrine for Joint Fire Support written by Joint chiefs of staff washington dc and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides fundamental principles and doctrine for the command and control of joint fire support for US forces throughout the range of military operations. (a) This publication establishes doctrine and procedures for planning, coordinating, and executing joint fire support, to include common fire support coordination measures and allocation of fire support efforts to ensure that all forces are coordinated in their efforts to support the joint force commander's plan. (b) The central theme of this publication is describing the successful delivery of joint fire support to meet joint operational objectives. The publication describes procedures and methods to synchronize and coordinate fire support assets of the joint force. To be effective, the combining of joint fire support and maneuver relies on the fundamental and beneficial effects of teamwork, unity of effort, and the synchronization of capabilities in time, space, and purpose.
Download or read book Operational Fires Taking Joint Fires to the Next Level written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint fires proved extremely effective during decisive operations in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The integration, synergy, and effectiveness of these fires were the result of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) developed to work around ineffective joint doctrine. These TTPs proved to be extremely flexible, effective and improved the focus and situational awareness of the operational fires. These TTPs should be incorporated into Joint Fires Doctrine; this can be further strengthened with a change to joint doctrine that mandates a Joint Fires Element. A standing Joint Fires Element can improve the overall integration and synchronization of operational fires in support of the Joint Force Commander's objectives, and can also act as an advocate to ensure joint fires remain an integrated and synchronized aspect of future doctrinal concepts.
Download or read book Joint Fire Coordination Challenges in Optimizing Employment of Advanced NSFS Weapons written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint Vision 2020 and the operational concepts of STOM and deep operations demonstrate the necessity for development of weapon systems to support combat operations over the entire depth of the battlespace. In support of these requirements, the Navy has undertaken the development advanced NSFS weapons that will be capable of providing a sustainable high volume rate of long range, precision fires in all weather conditions. Optimizing the employment of the advanced NSFS combat power will enable the operational commander to maximize economy of force and principle of mass. The challenge to optimizing the employment of advanced NSFS combat power resides in establishing unity of effort for fires and airspace deconfliction throughout the battlespace. The failure of joint doctrine to adequately address three critical deconfliction issues; delineation of the boundary between close and deep operations, designation of the control authority for fires in deep operations and the use of Killboxes, has resulted in doctrinal differences that pose unnecessary challenges to fires deconfliction.
Download or read book Joint Fire Support written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint Fire Support, Joint Publication 3-09, 10 April 2019 This publication provides fundamental principles and guidance for planning, executing, and assessing joint fire support. This publication has been prepared under the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS). It sets forth joint doctrine to govern the activities and performance of the Armed Forces of the United States in joint operations, and it provides considerations for military interaction with governmental and nongovernmental agencies, multinational forces, and other interorganizational partners. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print the paperback book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the bound paperback from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these paperbacks as a service so you don't have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound paperback, full-size (8 1/2 by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a HUBZONE SDVOSB. https: //usgovpub.com
