Download or read book Standing Down a Joint Task Force written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often established in a crisis, joint task forces (JTFs) are generally designed to respond to a specific set of circumstances. What happens to JTFs when the crises which originally demanded their formation disappears or is resolved? Emphasis is placed on standing up JTFs; but how does the Department of Defense determine when it is time to stand one down? Are there criteria used to make this decision, or is it a matter of judgement? In addition, this decision can be clouded by competing bureaucratic interests which seek to justify a continuation of the presence long after it is needed. The following case of Joint Task Force-Bravo, Honduras, illustrates this tendency. U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) maintains a small American military presence in Honduras at a facility known as Soto Cano Air Base. Joint Task Force-Bravo (JTF-B), directly subordinate to SOUTHCOM, consists of approximately 800 members of the Army and Air Force and U.S. Government civilian personnel. JTF-B has operational control over all forces deployed to Honduras, coordinates regional logistics, supervises engineering projects, maintains a search-and-rescue and medivac helicopter capability, and assists Honduras in counterdrug actions. Since the United States has no base leasing agreement, its military presence is dependent on the express permission of the government of Honduras. SOUTHCOM has had a presence at Soto Cano for over a decade. The original reasons for establishing JTF-B faded with the Cold War, but a lack of policy guidance from Washington has resulted in an American extended presence. Although SOUTHCOM continues to justify JTF-B as a critical hub for U.S. military training in Central America, most of the missions in question could be accomplished without the task force, saving DOD approximately $22 million annually.
Download or read book Standing Joint Task Forces written by John M. Bushman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-01-19 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Standing Joint Task Force today serves as an enduring organization of the national security environment. Of the numerous Standing Joint Task Forces operational around the world, this paper examines two whose missions support defense of the homeland. The United States Northern Command subordinate Army component command, U.S. Army North supervises these organizations: JTF-North and JTF Civil Support. The primary purpose for writing about these two organizations is to understand their unique mission, evaluate the cost of their sustainment, and to present options that may improve their effectiveness and ensure they meet the challenges of the 21st Century. The standard answer to a national security challenge in the 1980s and 1990s was to create a Standing Joint Task Force. This monograph challenges America to reexamine the roles, functions, and missions of the current Standing Joint Task Forces and develop alternative solutions that decrease costs, increase effectiveness, and place responsibility upon the whole of government and not solely on the Department of Defense.
Download or read book Standing Joint Task Forces in the 21st Century written by Jon E. Sachrison and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Standing Joint Task Force A Doctrinal Imperative written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. military has long recognized the imperative of operating in a joint fashion with highly trained units led by competent professional officers. While at the strategic level of war great strides have been made toward integrating the service components of the military instrument of national power, at the operational level only small gains have been made. Joint Pub 3-0 provides the doctrine for the conduct of joint operations. It permits commanders of unified commands to establish Joint Task Forces (JTFs) to accomplish missions with specific, limited objectives. This doctrine provides the combatant commander three options to be used to form a JTF headquarters (HQ). They are the use of a standing JTF (SJTF) HQ (by definition, a committed force); the formation of an ad hoc HQ from various contributors; or the augmentation of a core Service component HQ. Only the SJTF option provides a JTF staff capable of responding to contingency operations with a well-trained staff. Only the functional and geographic Commanders in Chief have the power to correct this serious deficiency in joint warfighting capability.
Download or read book Standing Joint Task Forces Commands Now Needed 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 the 21st century emerges, the U.S. will face threats that are more ambiguous and regionally focused than those found in previous years. This monograph seeks to determine if the U.S. military would be better prepared to conduct contingency operations if each geographic combatant commander established regionally-focused, contingency-based standing JTF headquarters. After analyzing the current political and military environments, the author highlights the doctrinal guidance concerning JTFs and identifies the circumstances surrounding their formation. The three methods used to form JTFs in contingency operations are then analyzed, citing historical examples of each, and the advantages and disadvantages of each method are identified. The initiative of standing JTFs is then dissected through a similar analysis. The author determines that standing JTFs are more effective when considering staff synchronization, responsiveness, regional knowledge and understanding, interoperability, service biases, resources, and commander/staff expertise. The author concludes by making recommendations to mitigate the disadvantages found with the standing JTF initiative.
Download or read book Running the Joint written by Caitlin Lee and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine U.S. Air Force efforts to develop a capability to carry out a Joint Task Force Headquarters (JTF HQ) mission. The findings will be relevant to anyone interested in Air Force efforts to stand up a JTF HQ.
Download or read book Standing Joint Task Forces The Need to Man as We Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the inception of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986, through the Quadrennial Defense Review and up to, and including, ongoing operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States military has undergone a joint transformation in the manner in which planning operations are organized. The Joint Task Force (JTF) has become the de facto standard for short/no-notice contingencies. In recent years many research studies and exercises have pointed to the concept of the Standing Joint Task Force (SJTF) as the next step in the evolutionary chain from ad hoc JTFs; in the quest for truly integrated, task-oriented, rapid-reaction staffs which are able to plan at the operational level. In this study, I theorize that the Standing Joint Task Force concept, though a step in the right direction, is not enough. Further, if a more in-depth, disciplined approach towards manpower is not taken the SJTF is marginalized to a.
Download or read book Headquarters Joint Task Force 7 Organization and Standing Operating Procedure written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joint Task Force Headquarters Standing Operating Procedures written by United States. Atlantic Command and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joint Force Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Standing Joint Task Force It is Time for a Virtual Solution written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The September 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review has raised the possibility of establishing a Standing Joint Task Force (SJTF) Headquarters working under each of the regional combatant commands in the near future. The military should consider it probable that creation of an SJTF will be translated into a requirement in the near future and remain unresourced. The establishment of Standing Joint Task Forces promises a more rapid response by reducing activation time and maintaining greater Joint interoperability. Each of the three methods by which this can be accomplished has its own advantages and disadvantages. Completely manning the SJTF uses too much manpower. Establishing the SJTF as an empty organizational chart is little different from the ad hoc JTFs that are created today and loses all the benefit of a standing unit. Partially manning the unit with a cadre of key individuals that can be augmented for deployment or training is the best method. Creation of this SJTF as a shell provides a cadre of personnel that can impart long-term continuity. Establishing contact with military organizations from other countries, various U.S. Departments and outside agencies before a crisis occurs and maintaining it throughout a mission can enable better coordination. Additionally, an SJTF provides a means for each Combatant Commander to proceed with Joint experimentation. An option open to the Combatant Commander is the use of virtual teams in augmenting the main body of the staff. Inclusion of personnel electronically from multiple locations reflects today s reality, flexes our technological superiority, and saves deployment time and dollars, both during exercises and real-world missions.
Download or read book JOINT TASK FORCE PHOENIX written by Jeff Fuller and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOINT TASK FORCE PHOENIX An American Odyssey This is a story about the threats America faces from outside our borders and from within. It begins with the recon team’s military freefall infiltration into Syria and ends with in a fight for survival in our nation’s capital. We follow Harris Norton and his team through the complex and harrowing operation to thwart an evil plot to take down our country. Feel the icy blast at 35,000 feet as the team exits a CIA aircraft to infiltrate into Syria. Feel the heat of battle in the desert and in our Capitol. Get to know the patriots who support the task force throughout its’ odyssey. Experience self-serving politicians who sell out their country for political and ideological advantage. Experience the phases of special operations from planning, rehearsal, infiltration, reconnaissance, execution, adjustment to reality, and finally to post-operations exploitation. See how military, intelligence and special operations personnel form bonds and values that carry through long after retirement. Get a sense of how the women of clandestine and military intelligence contribute to mission success. Feel the betrayal of traitors and the exhilaration of mission accomplishment. Recognize the nature of the special people we can count on when the going gets tough.
Download or read book Standing Joint Task Forces written by Marc R. Hildenbrand and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rapid Decisive Operations The Execution of Operational Art by a Standing Joint Task Force written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph reviewed the establishment of three Joint Task Forces: JTF 120 commanding OPERATION URGENT FURY in Grenada, JTF Guardian Assistance, the humanitarian relief operation to Central Africa, and JTF Noble Anvil in OPERATION ALLIED FORCE and contrasted them with the ongoing experimentation being conducted by the United States Joint Forces Command for Standing Joint Task Force headquarters. All three of these JTFs experienced initial problems during the establishment of the JTF, resulting in problems during the execution phases of the operation. Three of the characteristics of operational art from Joint Publication 3-0, Doctrine for Joint Operations, were used to evaluate the research question: Does the United States need to establish Standing Joint Task Forces to meet its security needs in the twenty-first century? The characteristics used in this assessment were synergy, anticipation, and timing and tempo. The monograph concluded that the model identified by Joint Forces Command of placing a standing Joint Force Headquarters within the staff of each regional CINC would provide a rapid and decisive response to an emerging crisis and provide the best means of executing operational art during the initial phases of our next military campaign.
Download or read book Standing Up a Joint Task Force written by Randy H. King and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joint Task Force France written by David E. Meadows and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When Meadows’s men set sail, it’s sure to be a mission like no other.”—W.E.B. Griffin Over the waters off the Ivory Coast, a routine exercise turns into a mysterious disaster, when a flight of F-22 fighters simply vanishes. Someone has gotten hold of an experimental weapon being developed by the American Missile Defense Office—and all signs point to the French. And when a secret mission to destroy the weapon goes wrong, it leads to a covert battle along the coast of Africa that could bring the world to war. Praise for David E. Meadows: “On a par with Tom Clancy.”—Milos Stankovic “Not only does the author know his subject but [his] fiction could readily become fact.”—John Tegler, host of the syndicated television show, Capital Conversation
Download or read book Are Standing Joint Task Force Headquarters the First Step in Transforming Cold War Formations written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Standing Joint Task Force (SJTF) headquarters concept in the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) was an attempt to prepare for the future by establishing permanent SJTF headquarters to meet the demands of the strategic operational environment and to strengthen joint operations. The purpose of this research project is to determine if the SJTF headquarters concept is the first step in transforming U.S. Cold War organizations. The research approach focuses on the strategic-operational environment, joint doctrine, joint culture, and JTF lessons. The conclusions and recommendations focus on JTF headquarters efficiency, they do not focus on success or failure. The essence is to determine if the SJTF headquarters is more efficient than other JTF headquarters options. During crises, the geographic commander in chief (CINC) may decide to establish a JTF headquarters using one of three available options: form an ad hoc headquarters, augment a subordinate service component headquarters, or use an existing standing JTF headquarters. The SJTF headquarters has the best potential to be the CINC's most efficient JTF headquarters option. SJTF experiences (service interaction in joint-interagency-coalition environments) will forge joint culture over time in the form of new beliefs, traditions, and values. Jointness is synonymous with culture and culture is synonymous with experience. The SJTF headquarters offers the promise of positive experiences to reinforce change to achieve more efficient joint-interagency-coalition operations. The SJTF offers an opportunity to transform the way the U.S. Armed Forces employs the unique contributions of the individual services from distinct instruments playing simultaneously to a joint symphony. The SJTF is better suited than other JTF headquarters options to integrate the individual service capabilities to create synergism. Nonetheless, the joint symphony is just an intermediate objective in the effort to achieve national unified action.
