Download or read book Operational Planning and Conflict Termination written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Armed Forces have proven themselves a capable policy instrument the Nation has always struggled with conflict termination. America has often prevailed military while failing to achieve policy goals quickly and efficiently. A scan of joint publications suggests that military professionals embrace the idea of a termination strategy but doctrine offers little practical help. It is time to take the next step creating an interagency organization and practices that can effectively conduct termination planning. Each regional commander in chief (CINC) should have a standing interagency team to act as an operations transition planning cell. This element must include members well versed in the application of the military diplomatic informational, and economic instruments of national power.

Download or read book Conflict Termination Or Conflict Transformation Rethinking the Operational Planning Paradigm written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a significant focus in recent years on the idea of conflict termination. The context of 21st century warfare, however, requires a new conceptual framework and the replacement of outdated and inaccurate terminology. Instead of continuing to consider conflict termination in planning, adopting the concept of "Conflict Transformation" as a primary element in operational design will more effectively combine the relevant aspects of termination with the emerging concept of Security, Stability, Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTR) Operations. Ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan reflect a transformational approach to conflict that must be codified. As SSTR operations become increasingly critical to operational success, conflict transformation offers a better framework to link current doctrine with this emerging concept. This will more precisely reflect what is operationally possible and more accurately denote what is operationally intended. By combining the relevant elements of termination with the emerging SSTR concept into the operational design framework offered by conflict transformation, operational planning can be more effectively focused.

Download or read book Operational Vision Conflict Termination and the Combatant Commander written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation IRAQI FREEDOM provides a vivid example of poor planning at the Operational Level of War. Research and analysis revealed three key elements that are essential for successful operational design: operational vision, conflict termination and end-state. A combatant commander's ability to visualize how the campaign should end and how to synchronize and sequence his forces in order to achieve the desired strategic end-state is critical in the joint operational planning process. The paper examines several underlying issues that contributed to the overall failure to address the post-conflict transition. Specifically it examines the role of the combatant commander's operational vision and its affect on conflict termination planning. Additionally, the paper draws conclusions concerning the consequences of not having early, integrated planning for conflict termination and the desired end-state. Finally, it offers recommendations for further research and analysis into two additional elements that when neglected or not recognized may also contribute to poor operational planning.

Download or read book The Strategic Approach to Operational Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. military planners continue to avoid focusing on conflict termination and Phase IV operations. Conflict termination and post-conflict operations planning failures highlight the need for a doctrinal paradigm shift that institutionalizes the notion that the decisive, military aspect of a war ends during Phase IV instead of during Phase III. Major combat operations are just enablers. One must not regard the military aspect of proper conflict termination as complete until security and stability operations are complete. A doctrinal transfer of security and stability operations from Phase IV to Phase III would greatly reinforce the "decisive" nature of Phase III. If the tasks of post-conflict operations are potentially violent, the military must perform them, and the military must holistically plan for post-conflict operations as part of Phase III. Postwar campaign planning also must become more interagency in conduct. Joint Pub 5-00.1 should be modified to require the review of campaign plans by the Department of State and other key non-Department of Defense (DoD) agencies as necessary. Despite recent incremental improvements in the interagency process, the existing construct is still too focused on interagency coordination rather than interagency integration. Only the military has the capacity to lead the effort to achieve the desired strategic end-state following military conflict, and doctrine must adapt to force operational planners to face this reality.

Download or read book Conflict Termination And Military Strategy written by Stephen J. Cimbala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although considerable attention has been paid to deterrence theory and crisis management, the equally important topic of ending wars has been virtually ignored. Conflict termination is the stepchild of U.S. strategy for a number of reasons. Thinking about how wars should end presupposes acceptance of the fact that war—especially nuclear war— is possible. Further, analyzing options for ending conflicts implies less-than-total victory, a concept that not only runs counter to the U.S. approach to warfare but also raises the specter of “limited war,†an approach that fell into disfavor following Korea and Vietnam. Finally, defining conflict termination objectives assumes that we think more about ends than means, that we know what is important to us and why, and thus understand the risks we will accept to defend specific interests and objectives. The contributors examine a wide variety of topics, ranging from Soviet and U.S. views on conflict termination to past, present, and future U.S. military service contributions. Their aim is to demonstrate the importance of careful evaluation of conflict termination goals during peacetime because when war begins passions and emotions will cloud decisionmaking.

Download or read book War Termination written by Frederick J. Ourso 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 War Termination Do Planning Principles Change With the Nature of the War written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the volumes of research and literature on the subject, belligerents mismanage war termination. The United States had more than its share of poorly terminated conflicts. This paper discusses answers to a three part question concerning war termination: do war termination principles differ with the nature of the war, if so, should operational commanders discriminate between conflict termination principles when exercising operational art, and is joint doctrine sufficient in providing guidance for conflict termination? Classical theory of war termination and lessons learned from previous U.S. military operations indicate that principles of conflict termination do not differ with the nature of the war. Although the nature of the war drives the operational design that causes conflict termination, the operational commander can apply war termination principles to all types of war. Joint doctrine, specifically Joint Pub 3-0, is more than adequate in offering planning guidance to the joint force commander. Joint doctrine has incorporated lessons from past operations and conflict termination theory to provide thorough planning guidance.

Download or read book Planning for Conflict Termination written by Bruce W. Sudduth and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Planning and Execution of Conflict Termination written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expression 'War Termination' has been received with an admixture of reactions ranging from idealism and acceptance, to skepticism and cynicism, to outright opposition. This is largely due to a lack of clear definition of terms. Conflict termination is a process that addresses and attempts to correct the fundamental root causes of dispute to lessen the likelihood of again resorting to armed conflict once a settlement is reached. This research paper analyzes both historic and current conflict termination planning and execution processes, draws conclusions and proposes an annex for DOD Joint Publication 5-03.1, Joint Operation Planning and Execution System, Volume 1: Planning Policies and Procedures. The purpose of the annex is to make conflict termination an integral part of the campaign planning process. The annex underscores pertinent issues and planning strategies to ensure victory on the battlefield while creating a conducive post-hostilities environment to achieve political objectives. Chapter 1 limits the scope of the study to interagency relationships and the development of DOD planning guidance for conflict termination. It also provides a review of the related literature used in this study. Chapter 2 establishes a common framework regarding conflict termination theories. Chapter 3 uses case studies to highlight the learning process and lessons learned in terminating previous conflicts. Chapter 4 provides insight into practical application of current and recommended termination concepts. Chapter 5 concludes with a summary of our research findings and suggestions for improved interagency coordination and incorporation of conflict termination in the deliberate and crisis planning processes.

Download or read book Beyond Guns and Steel written by Dominic J. Caraccilo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a doctrinal examination of war termination strategy and conflict resolution as a dependent pair, requiring a plan to achieve both in unison in advance of a fight. The necessity of a plan for conflict resolution should be intuitively obvious for policymakers, yet a survey of recent conflicts, including Afghanistan and Iraq, shows that not to be the case. Beyond Guns and Steel: A War Termination Strategy provides a practical approach to establishing a plan for war termination and conflict resolution before the bullets fly. In explaining the difference between strategy and policy, Colonel Dominic J. Caraccilo clarifies the most important, and often the most constraining, element of a nation's power—its resources. He posits that termination strategy and conflict resolution are interdependent and need to be included in conflict plans from the outset. Caraccilo's book fills a void in current strategy for the development of long-term plans that bring conflicts to timely and acceptable conclusions, providing a methodology that allows interagency requirements and resources for war termination to be defined, allocated, and employed effectively.

Download or read book War Termination Planning The Joint Force Commanders Role written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States military has overwhelmingly succeeded on the battlefield during recent conflicts, only to be stymied during post-conflict Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTR) operations. As a result, the U.S. has repeatedly struggled to meet desired national strategic objectives. In sharp contrast, U.S. post-conflict operations were highly successful in Germany and Japan following World War II. This paper will analyze why there is a huge discrepancy between more recent war termination results and post-conflict nation building efforts. Specifically, the paper will define war termination, as distinguished from conflict termination and conflict resolution, and then highlight the Joint Force Commander's role in war termination planning using experiential conflict lessons and current policy guidance as a framework. After establishing the Joint Force Commander as the appropriate lead for war termination planning, an analysis of the experiential lessons will detail organizational and environmental obstacles to the Commander's successful war termination planning. The paper will conclude with recommendations for addressing these obstacles and improving overall war termination planning during operational design development to ensure our nation's strategic objectives are satisfactorily met.

Download or read book How Does this All End written by Thomas Goss and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the military commanders and staff planners at US Central Command and Multinational Force-Iraq Headquarters in Baghdad, the question of how and when will Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and has lately become urgent due to events on the ground and political pressures. The political issue of how OIF ends is inherently wrapped up in the military issues of campaign planning, desired end states, centers of gravity, and operational phase transitions in the Iraq War over the next 12-24 months. The answer to this complex question is that OIF will end when the OIF operational commanders formally transition from the current counterinsurgency (COIN) campaign to a sustained shaping campaign of security cooperation that includes the two pillars of foreign internal defense (FID) and counter-terrorism (CT) operations. This change in operational focus can most effectively be done and signaled to US tactical units by removing the enemy center of gravity from the commander's operational vision and direction. Therefore, the conceptual key to ending the current OIF campaign is to integrate into commanders' vision and operational planning the flexible use of operational centers of gravity depicted below to design the successful transition to long term shaping activities outside the current OIF campaign.

Download or read book Conflict Termination Considerations for the Operational Commander written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of many of our recent past conflicts provides evidence that while the need for careful administration of conflict termination may have been understood its execution has not been well managed. Failures in conflict termination at the operational level arise primarily from two essential components of the conflict termination process. These two components which exist principally at the national strategic level are the formulation of the national objectives and the establishment of conditions under which a stable peace will be achieved. In essence for the operational commander conflict termination is merely the translation of these two components into a military end state. While closely interrelated these two fundamental components of conflict termination must be evaluated separately and well understood by the operational commander in order to avoid critical pitfalls of a badly conceived and poorly supported termination strategy. While the decision to initiate and terminate a war is always a political decision and resides at the highest national command level successful conflict termination is inextricably linked with conditions on the battlefield established by the operational commander. Although operational commanders do not make policy their actions can critically impact the success or failure of those policies. The operational commander must establish an end state to support the political aim and be able to explain both to superiors and subordinates how his vision of that end state is critical to the conflict termination process.

Download or read book The Operations Transition Planning Cell written by John R. Boulé and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As operations over the last twelve years have shown, the United States Armed Forces have become the dominant military force on earth. All services, operating in joint and combined environments, have proven themselves capable policy instruments. Where the U.S. has struggled, however, is in the area of conflict termination. Since World War II, the U.S. has often prevailed militarily, but frequently failed to achieve policy goals. Examples of these termination failures include Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Somalia and the Balkans. Moreover, World War II was a war termination anomaly. How often in the future will the U.S. fight a war with the stated objective of the enemy's unconditional surrender? The prospect is unlikely. Senior military leaders must be prepared to fight highly constrained limited wars and Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) with plans that focus not just on military success but also on winning the peace. As leaders assess the condition and direction of the U.S. military, an opportunity now exists to take a long, hard look at conflict termination planning. A quick scan of the Joint Pubs gives the military professional the sense that the culture whole-heartily buys into the importance of conflict termination strategy, but the literature offers little help on designing such a strategy. It is time to take the next step. This step is creating an interagency organization and a doctrine that arms this organization with the tools to do termination planning.

Download or read book The Operations Transition Planning Cell Organizing and Tooling for Termination Success written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As operations over the last twelve years have shown, the United States Armed Forces have become the dominant military force on earth. All services, operating in joint and combined environments, have proven themselves capable policy instruments. Where the U.S. has struggled, however, is in the area of conflict termination. Since World War II, the U.S. has often prevailed militarily, but frequently failed to achieve policy goals. Examples of these termination failures include Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Somalia and the Balkans. Moreover, World War II was a war termination anomaly. How often in the future will the U.S. fight a war with the stated objective of the enemy's unconditional surrender? The prospect is unlikely. Senior military leaders must be prepared to fight highly constrained limited wars and Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) with plans that focus not just on military success but also on winning the peace. As leaders assess the condition and direction of the U.S. military, an opportunity now exists to take a long, hard look at conflict termination planning. A quick scan of the Joint Pubs gives the military professional the sense that the culture whole-heartily buys into the importance of conflict termination strategy, but the literature offers little help on designing such a strategy. It is time to take the next step. This step is creating an interagency organization and a doctrine that arms this organization with the tools to do termination planning.

Download or read book Beginning with the End in Mind Post conflict Operations and Campaign Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint and U.S. Army doctrine is deficient in addressing post-conflict operations (PCO) with PCO defined as Stability and Support Operations conducted after the conclusion of major combat to achieve the strategic policy objectives for peace. This study addresses three central questions. Is there a need for post-conflict planning in the campaign process? What conditions are necessary to achieve success in the post-conflict environment? Are PCO the decisive phase? Brief case studies demonstrate the importance of PCO planning and suggest five necessary conditions for success: national and domestic security, a governing body, a judicial system, an economic system, and a populace capable of making the first four work. As U.S. military involvement does not culminate with the successful conclusion of major combat, planning for conflict termination and transition from combat to PCO should outline necessary conditions for a smooth transition. This study concludes that PCO is the decisive phase of operations and offers a planning model based on academic and doctrinal sources. Additional conclusions are that the U.S. military acknowledge its leading role in planning and executing PCO, major war games should incorporate post-conflict planning and execution, and the Department of Defense should pursue the developing Joint Interagency Coordination Group concept.

Download or read book Withdrawal from Conflict written by Mark E. Calvert and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My thesis is that given the nature of the threat and strategic environment in Iraq and Afghanistan, we will likely meet our political objective prior to the termination of conflict; history may provide us with some valuable lessons to consider as we develop and implement a plan for withdrawing forces in the midst of ongoing conflict. The purpose of this paper is to explore a historical case study where military forces were withdrawn in the midst of conflict, and look at possible lessons that might be applied to strategic and operational planning in the future. Understanding and applying these could allow the successful transfer of operations to the host nation without losing ground on our political objective. First, I will examine withdrawal from conflict at the strategic and operational level as it relates to our doctrine. Second, I will look at a historical case study where withdrawal from ongoing conflict was executed in the past. The case study I will look at is the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988-1989. In this study, I will examine the National Policy changes that precipitated the withdrawal, the withdrawal plan and withdrawal execution. Third I will analyze the case study in the context of the elements of strategy and operational art. Finally, I will discuss some recommendations that might be used in the development of a future strategy that that might involve the withdrawal of forces prior to actual conflict termination."--Abstract from web site.