Download or read book Joint Force Fires Coordinator Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides the J-7 Joint Staff with conclusions and recommendations regarding the joint force fires coordinator (JFFC) concept to include development of a Joint Staff position and a recommendation to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During the study period the Army-Air Force Warfighter Conference results were released. These results included an agreement that the title 'JFFC' should be changed not to connote any command authority. This study addresses the issue with siginificance but uses the title 'JFFC' as a point of reference for the fluctions and not to endorse the name. The Joint Warfighting Center (JWFC) study team examined the JFFC concept from the joint force commander's (JFC) viewpoint by identifying joint fires functions and tasks and testing the appropriateness of their assignment to the J-3 who could be assisted by a JFFC. The definitions of fires, joint fires, and joint fire support along with the JFFC concept provided in the July 1996 final draft of Joint Pub 3-09, 'Doctrine for Joint Fire Support,' were used as starting points. Data was collected from the Joint Electronic Library (JEL), geographic combatant commands, Service doctrine commands, Joint Universal Lessons Learned System (JULLS), exercise observations, interviews, briefings, meetings, and library resources. The study compares the joint fires functions and tasks performed by the JFC (J-3 cognizance), joint targeting coordination board (JTCB), joint force air component commander (JFACC), and other components. The study draws conclusions and makes recommendations about the potential JFFC impact on joint doctrine and joint targeting procedures, long-range. implications, and advantage s/disadvantages of establishing a JFFC.
Download or read book Joint Force Fires Coordinator Study written by Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides the J-7, Joint Staff with conclusions and recommendations regarding the joint force fires coordinator (JFFC) concept, to include development of a Joint Staff position and a recommendation to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During the study period, the Army-Air Force Warfighter Conference results were releases. These results included an agreement that the title "JFFC" should be changed to not connote any command authority. This study addresses the issue with significance, but uses the title "JFFC" as a point of reference for the functions and not to endorse the name. The Joint Warfighting Center (JWFC) study team examined the JFFC concept from the joint force commander's (JFC) viewpoint by identifying joint fires functions and tasks, and testing the appropriateness of their assignment to the J-3, who could be assisted by a JFFC. The definitions of fires, joint fires, and joint fire support along with the JFFC concept provided in the July 1996 final draft of Joint Pub 3-09, "Doctrine for Joint Fire Support," were used as starting points. Data was collected from the Joint Electronic Library (JEL), geographic combatant commands, Service doctrine commands, Joint Universal Lessons Learned System (JULLS), exercise observations, interviews, briefings, meetings, and library resources. The study compares the joint fires functions and tasks performed by the JFC (J-3 cognizance), joint targeting coordination board (JTCB), joint force air component commander (JFACC), and other components. The study draws conclusions and makes recommendations about the potential JFFC impact on joint doctrine and joint targeting procedures, long-range implications, and advantages/disadvantages of establishing a JFFC.
Download or read book Coordination of Future Joint Fires Do We Need a Joint Fire Support Coordinator written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper will address the issue of whether joint doctrine should identify a JFSCOORD organization capable of advising the JFC in joint fires planning and coordination. This study is important because past events and the current situation prove that coordination of joint fires will continue to be a significant challenge for the operational commander. Further, the research will show that current joint doctrine does not address the core of the issue. Additionally, current doctrine drives future service component capabilities that will continue to overlap and more complicate the problem. This composition investigates the question of: Does the Joint Force Commander need a Joint Fire Support Coordinator? paper is organized into three parts. The first section identifies problems incurred during Operation Desert Storm. This is one of the recent indications of advanced technology creating coordination problems between service components. The second section analyzes service component views and doctrine published as a direct result of Operation Desert Storm. Since doctrine drives weapons development, this will first indicate overlapping capabilities. The last section will identify future component capabilities currently in development. It will show the merging of battlespace between all services. The paper recommended that joint doctrine identify a Joint Fire Support Coordinator (JFSCOORD) and Joint Fire Support Coordination Element (JFSCE) to assist the JFC in the execution of his fire support duties. In this way, maximum synchronization of component fire support efforts are achieved.
Download or read book Markuskirche Jestetten written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Coordinating Operational Fires for the Twenty First Century written by Gregory B. Schultz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operational fires have played an increasingly vital role in the campaign plans of Joint Force Commanders as technology has increased the ability to identify, target, and engage enemy forces, facilities, and functions throughout the depth of the battlefield. In the past, operational fires, in the form of air interdiction, have predominantly been the responsibility of the Air Force since they have possessed the systems to range and engage the enemy effectively at operational depths. New and developing capabilities like JSTARS, ATACMS, Extended Range MLRS, Apache Longbow, and brilliant munitions, are increasing the complexity, potential, and joint nature of operational fires. These capabilities have contributed to the increased emphasis on joint operations and has led to considerable debate on the issue of operational fire planning, coordination, and execution. This monograph examines the need for a Joint Force Fires Coordinator (JFFC) to help maximize the potential of operational fires. To determine whether a JFFC is needed, this paper first examines the nature and concept of operational fires from contextual and doctrinal perspectives. This is done by reviewing the historical background and development of operational fires and the Army, Air Force, and Joint doctrine regarding operational fires and interdiction planning, coordination, and execution. Using the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency, and unity of effort, this paper then reviews the experiences of joint and service component planners during the Gulf War and identifies problems or shortcomings in current doctrine and procedures. This paper concludes that shortcomings in joint doctrine, combined with competing interests and perspectives by the component services prevents the optimal use of operational fires.
Download or read book Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joint Fire Support written by U.s. Joint Force Command and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides fundamental principles and guidance for planning, coordinating, and executing joint fire support across the range of military operations. It sets forth joint doctrine to govern the activities and performance of the Armed Forces of the United States in joint operations and provides the doctrinal basis for interagency coordination and for US military involvement in multinational operations. The foundations of joint fire support are based on the elements of combat power, the principles of joint operations, and joint functions. The elements of combat power are combined to provide the basis for the generation of overwhelming firepower. The fire support system has its roots in the firepower element of combat power. Joint fires are defined as fires delivered during the employment of forces from two or more components in coordinated action to produce desired effects in support of a common object Joint fire support is defined as joint fires that assist air, land, maritime, and SOF to move, maneuver, and control territory, populations, airspace, and key waters in support of the joint force commander's (JFC's) scheme of maneuver.
Download or read book Put a Seat at the Table for the Joint Force Fires Coordinator written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gulf War demonstrated leaps in technology and the corresponding doctrine that facilitated the rapid destruction of the Iraqi Army. Both the Army and Air Force made changes to their doctrine in the aftermath of the Gulf based on their lessons learned. Since 1991, these doctrines have continued to evolve based on service concerns. Joint Publication 3-09, published in 1998, captured many of these changes in the Joint doctrine. One of the most significant was the creation of the optional staff member of the J-3, know as the Joint Force Fires Coordinator. The continued inter-service rivalry, technological improvements and lack of agreement provide a base to argue for a further change to Joint Doctrine that makes the JFFC a permanent member of the J-3 staff. This paper traces the development of doctrine from the Army and the Air Force, the publication of JP 3-09, and discusses the need for a permanent JFFC.
Download or read book Force XXI Precision Engagement The Need for a Joint Force Fire Coordinator written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do current Joint Doctrinal procedures for operational targeting facilitate Joint Vision 2010's operational concept of precision engagement? Operation DESERT STORM proved the criticality of effective joint operational targeting. Additionally, the GULF WAR reinforced the fact that single services no longer conduct war without the support and/or proper integration of other services. Yet, six years later, Joint Doctrine is still vague on operational targeting procedures. JCS Pub 3-09, Joint Fire Support, is still unpublished and heated debate continues between the services over which element in theater should be responsible for this complex task. This monograph examines the Gulf War and emerging joint and service doctrine to identify which element should coordinate operational fires and joint operational targeting. Focus is on U.S. Army and Air Force issues. Naval and Marine forces combined operation considerations are addressed but not in detail. The monograph is organized into six sections. The first is the introduction. The second discusses the problem background. The third section examines emerging U.S. Air Force, Army and joint doctrine following the Gulf War. The fourth section examines doctrine and procedures in the Gulf War. The fifth section is analysis and the last section concludes noting the requirement for a Joint Force Fire Coordinator.
Download or read book Joint Force Fire Support written by Frederick S. Gisler and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Joint Force Fires Coordinator in Maritime Operations 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 thesis of this paper is that in order for the JFC to achieve maximum effectiveness from operational fires in maritime operations, a joint force fires coordinator (JFFC) and a supporting section should be an integral part of the JFC's staff, empowered and manned to coordinate all operational fires. As the idea of a JFFC as a permanent member on the JFC's staff is not a new issue to the joint community, the author begins by identifying the advocates and opponents of the JFFC, summarizes their positions, and examines how the issue is addressed in joint doctrine. The author then provides the future context in which operational fires will be planned, delivered, and deconflicted in a maritime environment, and determines whether the JFC would be better served by assigning responsibility for coordination of operational fires in maritime operations to a JFFC, or by leaving it in the hands of the JFACC (and why). Finally, the author provides recommendations to increase the effectiveness of operational fires.
Download or read book Lethal and Non Lethal Fires written by Army University Press and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lethal and Non-Lethal Fires: Historical Case Studies of Converging Cross-Domain Fires in Large Scale Combat Operations, provides a collection of ten historical case studies from World War I through Desert Storm. The case studies detail the use of lethal and non-lethal fires conducted by US, British, Canadian, and Israeli forces against peer or near-peer threats. The case studies span the major wars of the twentieth-century and present the doctrine the various organizations used, together with the challenges the leaders encountered with the doctrine and the operational environment, as well as the leaders' actions and decisions during the conduct of operations. Most importantly, each chapter highlights the lessons learned from those large scale combat operations, how they were applied or ignored and how they remain relevant today and in the future.
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 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 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 Fire Support Coordination Measures by the Numbers written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire Support Coordination Measures (FSCMs) can significantly increase or decrease the efficiency of joint combat operations. This thesis examines use and placement of the Fire Support Coordination Line (FSCL). The line helps ensure that firepower directed at a surface commander's area of operations (AO) is properly coordinated toward objectives assigned by the Joint Force Commander (JFC). Research suggests that an effects-based analysis of the various fires supplied by the land and air components offers an appropriate means to determine FSCL location. Short of the FSCL, where land forces typically supply the preponderance of effects, the ground commander should act as coordinating authority. Beyond it, when established at the depth where air forces tend to provide the preponderance of effects, the Joint Forces Air Component Commander (JFACC) should assume coordination responsibility. Hence, forces assigned to the land and air component commanders would coordinate their employment with that component providing the dominant battlefield effects. Operation Desert Storm presents several case studies that tend to support the idea. Khafji (defensive operations to repel an attack), 73 Easting (offensive operations against a defending enemy), and attacks on the "Highway of Death" (operations against a withdrawing enemy) provide reinforcing evidence. Analysis indicates that an FSCL based on the preponderance of effects takes into account the various situation-specific factors mentioned in joint doctrine. If an effects-based FSCL were used in the Gulf War, fires may have been better coordinated and more potent. Staffs planning for future combat operations should advise on FSCL placement based on the preponderance of effects, which incorporates factors such as forces available, the scheme of maneuver, enemy array, targeting plan and other key issues.
