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 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 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 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 Rapid Decisive Operations written by Edward T. Bohnemann and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 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 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 Grammar Foundation for Communication Book 1 English Russian written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 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 Design in Operations Other Than War written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 and 1991 the US Army dramatically proved that it had learned from its failure in Vietnam. Just as FM 100-5 Operations represented a fundamental shift in Army's approach to warfare, so too Just Cause and Desert Shield/Storm offered clear examples of the effects of this learning experience. In addition, these operations benchmark the nation's capability to achieve national policy objectives in a less constrained world stage. In this author's view, these victories mark a new era of learning in the military community. In other words, the OOTW learning experience for the Post Cold War military compares with the Vietnam Era for the Post World War II warrior. For a generation of soldiers, OOTW represents a different enemy in an unstable political environment. Although political events will shape this emerging battlefield, it also demands that the military adopt an intellectual framework that is not force destruction based. In fact, this new enemy, which ranges from a disaster to a criminal organization, cannot be defeated by applying traditional combat power. Despite this altered mental image of the battlefield, the dangers inherent in misjudging it are the same, namely mission failure. The military's ability to do OOTW missions is already shaping its relevance for the 21st Century. As the United States attempts to remain engaged in the world and enlarge its democratic spectrum, doing these missions well is important to national policy. The organization of choice for the modern military to cope in this environment is the Joint Task Force (JTF).
Download or read book Mission Command in the 21st Century written by Nathan K. Finney and published by . This book was released on 2016-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Application of Information Superiority to a Joint Task Force Headquarters written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptual documents like Joint Vision 2010 (JV 2010), the Concept for Future Joint Operations (CFJO), and the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) postulate that advances in technology and information superiority will revolutionize the way military forces operate early in the 21st Century. The battlespace of tomorrow will be marked by more lethal weapons possessing greater accuracy and longer ranges; a higher tempo of operations with dispersed forces and increased mobility; greater situational awareness of the Joint Operational Area; organizational changes to military units; and better trained and equipped personnel. The impact of these changes suggests different alternatives for organizing the joint force headquarters. It addresses the key question: Is the present method of forming, organizing, and employing the Joint Task Force (JTF) Headquarters (HQ) adequate to command and control tomorrow's joint forces? If the answer is no, then how can technological innovations improve upon this function.
Download or read book The Use of Operational Design and Intelligence in a Joint Task Force Environment to Fight the War on Drugs written by Luis A. Cruz and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Force Headquarters written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper argues that establishing PJHQ-US (Permanent Joint Headquarters-US) from Service Component Headquarters will enhance US joint warfighting skills and improve the future development of JC2 capabilities at the Operational Level of War. Indications through historical research, lessons learned from previous and current operations in the Global War on Terror, and emerging concepts from Joint Training and Experimentation conclude that the next logical step in the JC2 evolution would be to create uniquely designed Permanent Joint Headquarters-United States (PJHQ-US). These permanently assigned joint operational level commanders and staffs would be fully manned, trained, and equipped. PJHQ-US would have the organizational procedures and processes to plan and execute operations ranging across the full spectrum of conflict from Major Combat Operations (MCOs) to Stability and Support Operations (SASO) and from pre-crisis to conclusion in support of any of the Combatant Commander's objectives and our National Military Strategy.
Download or read book Command and Control of Special Operations Forces for 21st Century Contingency Operations written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The establishment of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) in the late 1980's created a single command designed to correct serious deficiencies in the ability of the United States to conduct special operations and engage in low-intensity conflict. Among other things, the creation of USSOCOM intended to correct problems associated with the command and control of Special Operations Forces (SOF). However, these command and control problems still exist today. Recent contingency operations in Afghanistan and the Philippines have shown the command and control difficulties with SOF. The command and control structure established for Task Force DAGGER was ad hoc in nature and did not follow current doctrine. Although not perfect, the C2 structure established for Operation Enduring Freedom- Philippines followed current doctrine and proved much easier to work with. Current doctrine is a starting point for establishing command and control structures and combatant commanders should follow this doctrine when establishing lines of command. Creating a Standing Joint Task Force is not the way for combatant commanders to establish their staffs. In contrast, this paper argues that the optimal C2 for SOF operations in the 21st century should be a blend of doctrine and practical lessons learned during recent combat operations.
Download or read book The Joint Fires Element An Initial Solution written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st Century joint force will be the centerpiece for a wide range of military operations that will emphasize gaining operational and strategic effects against the enemy force. Modern systems, sophisticated communications, sensors and unprecedented battlefield awareness make more decentralized and independent operations easier to plan, coordinate and execute. As the joint task force assumes the role as the primary deployment arm of the military instrument, its commander must be capable of managing a multitude of operational level activities across a battle space that continues to change its shape and become less defined. The addition of the Joint Fires Element to the JTF provides the commander with a dedicated staff to ensure that the joint force is capable of successfully accomplishing the joint fire support tasks and allows component commanders to focus greater attention to planning and execution of assigned missions. Simply stated, there is a compelling need for a standing joint fires element at the joint task force headquarters to plan, coordinate and integrate joint fires into the commander's concept of operations. This paper briefly summarizes the need to modify current doctrine, presents the current state of staff roles and functions to manage joint fires, identifies where doctrine has attempted to appease its critics but fallen short of adequately addressing the key issues, and finally presents a suggested organization at the joint task force level to plan, coordinate and execute effective joint operational fires.
Download or read book The Armed Forces Officer written by Richard Moody Swain and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.
