Download or read book The Role of the Joint Force Commander in Synchronizing Operational Fires written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor decisions by the JFC regarding command relationships and synchronization procedures will inhibit effective employment of operational fires given the compressed time, greater mobility, and enhanced lethality of twenty-first century warfare. The trend toward a smaller force structure, diminished acceptance of collateral damage and increased involvement by political leaders makes the modern battlefield less forgiving to errors in command relationships, apportionment, targeting, and fire support coordination. Operation Desert Storm (ODS) proves that improper command relationships, incorrect apportionment, absence of a JTCB, and poor placement of the FSCL will prevent accomplishing the desired end state even with a harmonious Operational Design. Operation Allied Force (OAF) demonstrates that success is elusive and operational fires are ineffective with incoherent national policy objectives, poor COO analysis, unsuitable command relationships, fruitless apportionment, and a nonexistent JTCB. This analysis suggests that U.S. Joint Doctrine should mandate that JFCs construct a coherent Operational Design, designate component commanders, and use appropriate synchronization procedures to effectively employ operational fires for any campaign or major operation.
Download or read book Synchronizing Airpower and Other Operational Fires The Joint Force Commander s Role written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor decisions by the Joint Force Commander (JFC) regarding command relationships and synchronization procedures will inhibit effective employment of airpower and other operational fires given the compressed time, greater mobility, and enhanced lethality of twenty-first century warfare. The trend toward a smaller force structure, diminished acceptance of collateral damage and increased involvement by political leaders makes the modern battlefield less forgiving to errors in command relationships, apportionment, targeting, and fire support coordination. Operation Desert Storm proves that improper command relationships, incorrect apportionment, absence of a joint targeting coordination board (JTCB), and poor placement of the fire support coordination line (FSCL) will prevent accomplishing the desired end state even with a harmonious operational design. Operation Allied Force demonstrates that success is elusive and operational fires ineffective with incoherent national policy objectives, poor center of gravity analysis, unsuitable command relationships, fruitless apportionment, and a nonexistent JTCB. This analysis suggests that for the effective employment of operational fires, U.S. Joint Doctrine should require the JFC to construct a coherent operational design and then actively orchestrate synchronization by designating component commanders, initiating a logical air apportionment decision, establishing a JTCB, and then controlling placement of the FSCL for any campaign or major operation.
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 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 Synchronizing Airpower And Firepower In The Deep Battle written by Lt.-Col. R. Kent Lauchbaum and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this award-winning study on Synchronizing Airpower and Firepower in the Deep Battle, Lt.-Col. R. Kent Lauchbaum argues that current joint doctrine does not provide sufficient and acceptable guidance for synchronizing Air Force and Army deep operations. To improve such synchronization, Colonel Lauchbaum proposes five modifications to current joint doctrine.
Download or read book Synchronization in Joint Operational Warfare written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synchronization offers the Joint Force Commander (JFC) the ability to add synergism to his unified effort to achieve desired results. Today, synchronization of joint forces takes on great importance. Synchronization is addressed throughout Joint Doctrine and to further define it deprives the JFC of initiative and creativity at the operational level. As the link between the strategic and operational levels of war the JFC must synchronize not only his assigned forces at the operational level, but also the total effort of his forces with political, economic, and social actions at the strategic level. To illustrate the concepts and importance of synchronization, this essay first analyzes the role of synchronization in the German invasion of Norway; second, investigates the adequacy of current doctrine in its treatment of synchronization, focusing on Joint Publication 3-0, Doctrine for Joint Operations (JP 3-0) and Army Field Manual 100-5 Operations, (FM 100-5); third, addresses the vertical and horizontal components of synchronization and concludes with an example of modern application of synchronization in the coalition defeat of Iraq in 1991.
Download or read book Operational Fires Improving Doctrine to Apply the Operational Art to Fires written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes whether joint doctrine adequately provides a framework for the Joint Forces Commander to apply the operational art to fires. With the increased lethality of precision, fires will play an increased role in campaign plans of the future. Joint Doctrine should enable the Joint Force commander to employ the facets of Operational art to the function of fires. Operation Desert Storm demonstrated the capabilities and challenges of employing fires at the Joint Operational level. Operational fires facilitated the rapid collapse of Iraqi ground forces during the coalition's four day ground offensive. Friction, however, arose between the ground and air components, both while fires were shaping the battle space and during the offensive. The doctrine developed since Desert Storm still leaves unanswered questions concerning who is responsible for operational fires and where they will be delivered. This paper recommends that joint doctrine be developed for operational fires. New joint doctrine should prescribe the direction of joint-operational fires under a single joint command. Doctrine should also address how the battle space should be divided to facilitate the Joint Force Commander's concept of fires. Finally, doctrine should anticipate that maneuver may be conducted to support operational fires.
Download or read book Doctrine for Joint Operations written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 162 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 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 Coordinating Operational Fires in a High Risk Battle Space A New Concept for the Joint 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: Current joint doctrine is adequate for coordinating fires up to the corps/MEF level. Operation Allied Force, the 78-day major air operation designed to stop Serb aggression in Kosovo from March to June 1999, has clearly shown the need for a common method to coordinate operational fires and ground maneuver, while simultaneously minimizing collateral damage. The Joint Force Commander has a requirement for a permanent joint staff fires element to plan, coordinate and execute fires to support the JFC's overall objectives. My thesis emphasizes that the solution is not a technological one, but one capitalizing on service experts to form a joint fires cell. In my opinion, the joint fires problem stems from a combination of factors; lack of joint integration at the JFC level, and no one with their finger on the pulse of the total joint fires picture. My thesis proposes a way that the joint staff could be integrated to more effectively address the joint fires function of the JFC.
Download or read book Command and Control of Operational Fires How Will It Be Done written by Gary Supnick and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent advances in weapon and information systems have enhanced the impact Service components can have on the future battlefield. As a result of this technological explosion the method by which the operational or Joint Force Commander can command and control operational fires has become a dilemma requiring new methods to accomplish this coordination task. New and improved weapon systems now provide the tactical commander and all Service components the ability to contribute to the Joint Force Commander's operational fires. Upcoming information systems will greatly increase the speed of real-time targeting, battle damage assessment and retargeting information. As a consequence of the increased depth of the tactical commander's battlefield and the net-centric manner in which battlefield information is expected to be shared, the command and control of operational fires has become a problem for the Joint Force Commander. Current procedures for the planning of operational fires are antiquated in light of new technology. If the Joint Force Commander is to command and control his operational fires and maintain the tempo of the battlespace certain steps must be taken. These steps include creating a Deep Battle Synchronization Line, a designated operational fires cell at the Joint Task Force level and the approval of joint fires doctrine which currently remains in the draft format.
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 Developing Doctrine for the Future Joint Force Creating Synergy and Minimizing Seams written by Charles Brown and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonel Brown argues that recent operations have highlighted seams and shortfalls in joint doctrine that need to be addressed in the shaping of a more effective future joint force. Using the current doctrine command and control tenets and Joint Operations Concept attributes as a framework, Colonel Brown develops the foundation of air-ground doctrine for the future joint force. Using case studies from recent contingencies to illustrate gaps in current doctrine, he proposes doctrinal concepts via five air-ground integration focus areas: supporting/supported relationships, establishing directives and emerging concepts, synchronization of interdiction and maneuver, joint fires concepts, and fire support coordination measures. Colonel Brown proposes support relationships be defined by the joint force commander based on operational objectives. Joint force commanders would then articulate intent, relationships, and objectives through proposed establishing directive guidance. Colonel Brown also proposes a responsive and interoperable joint organizational construct capable of integrating the effects created by fire and maneuver. He completes his proposals by recommending a standardized coordination-measure construct to allow timely decision making and execution in future joint operations.
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 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 Jfods5 written by Norman M. Wade and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
