Download or read book Joint Fires Coordination Service Competencies and Boundary Challenges written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boundaries between close and deep battlespace will vary among combatant commands in typical theaters of operations. The point at which deep and close battlespace meet rates attention from planners because it challenges joint force commanders (JFCs) who must conduct tactical and operational fires and maneuvers as well as joint fire support. One cause for this consideration is the umbrella under which joint fires are placed, where cross-boundary coordination is critical for synchronized actions that create economy of force, unity of effort, and integrated joint operations. Joint doctrine does not sufficiently address intra-theater, cross-boundary joint fires coordination. The answer lies in modifying doctrine. This proposal can be examined in joint publications, joint universal lessons learned (JULL) archives, combined forces command, and combatant command boundary relationships and sources. The problem transcends service interests. More importantly, lives depend on adequate joint fires coordination. A review of the differences between terms of art and service perspectives on battlespace reveals the implications of this issue for commanders and suggests some solutions.
Download or read book Joint Fires Coordination Service Specialties and Boundary Challenges written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the challenges facing joint force commanders today is the coordination of operational and tactical fires which traverse boundaries within a joint operations area. These boundaries are the demarcation of deep and close battlespaces within individual areas of operations that are normally controlled by different supported commanders. Adequate coordination among supported commanders is pivotal to avoid fratricide and reduce duplication of effort. Unfortunately, joint doctrine does not adequately address how commanders can ensure economy of force and unity of effort when conducting joint fires. Specifically, the challenge is most critical in the area between the Fire Support Coordination Line (FSCL) and the Joint Force Land Component Commander's (JFLCC) forward boundary because joint fires must complement future operational maneuvers. This paper evaluates the issue of joint fires coordination by examining joint and service doctrine publications, combatant command directives, and the Joint Universal Lessons Learned (JULLs) database. Interviews were also conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the problem. In short, there is no common understanding among services about joint fires coordination, operational and tactical fires, and deep battlespace missions. This challenge can be resolved by modifying joint doctrine to address adequately joint fires that traverse intratheater boundaries. Recommendations include creating a coordination element within each supported commander's staff and providing the JFLCC an adequate maneuvering area beyond the FSCL to independently conduct deep operational maneuvers.
Download or read book Joint Force Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning Large Lessons written by David E. Johnson and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relative roles of U.S. ground and air power have shifted since the end of the Cold War. At the level of major operations and campaigns, the Air Force has proved capable of and committed to performing deep strike operations, which the Army long had believed the Air Force could not reliably accomplish. If air power can largely supplant Army systems in deep operations, the implications for both joint doctrine and service capabilities would be significant. To assess the shift of these roles, the author of this report analyzed post?Cold War conflicts in Iraq (1991), Bosnia (1995), Kosovo (1999), Afghanistan (2001), and Iraq (2003). Because joint doctrine frequently reflects a consensus view rather than a truly integrated joint perspective, the author recommends that joint doctrine-and the processes by which it is derived and promulgated-be overhauled. The author also recommends reform for the services beyond major operations and campaigns to ensure that the United States attains its strategic objectives. This revised edition includes updates and an index.
Download or read book Minimizing Coordination Problems Between the JFACC and JFLCC in the Coordination of Joint Fires Between the FSCL Aud Land Component Forward Boundary written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis discusses the coordination problems which arise between the Joint Force Air Component Commander (JFACC) and the Joint Force Land Component Commander (JFLCC) when trying to employ fires between the fire support coordination line (FSCL) and the land component forward boundary. This is due to the JFLCC being the supported commander within this area of the battlefield, though the JFACC actually has the preponderance of capabilities for employing fires. Joint doctrine explicitly states that the FSCL is a permissive measure. However, coordination with other affected commanders is required when employing fires to prevent duplication of targets, as well as fratricide. Joint doctrine provides great latitude to joint force commanders to establish command and control relationships and employ appropriate coordination measures to ensure effective coordination. This thesis concludes that the FSCL must be treated as a permissive measure, just as defined in joint doctrine. Though the JFLCC is the supported commander, the JFACC should be appointed the Coordinating Authority for fires beyond the FSCL due to his capabilities to both acquire targets and employ fires. The JFLCC best retains his influence in shaping the battlefield beyond the FSCL by providing the JFACC mission-type orders, in addition to standard target nominations.
Download or read book Military Innovation in Small States written by Michael Raska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the global diffusion of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) and its impact on military innovation trajectories in small states. Although the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA) concept has enjoyed significant academic attention, the varying paths and patterns of military innovation in divergent strategic settings have been overlooked. This book seeks to rectify this gap by addressing the broad puzzle of how the global diffusion of RMA-oriented military innovation – the process of international transmission, communication, and interaction of RMA-related military concepts, organizations, and technologies - has shaped the paths, patterns, and scope of military innovation of selected small states. In a reverse mode, how have selected small states influenced the conceptualization and transmission of the RMA theory, processes, and debate? Using Israel, Singapore and South Korea as case studies, this book argues that RMA-oriented military innovation paths in small states indicate predominantly evolutionary trajectory, albeit with a varying patterns resulting from the confluence of three sets of variables: (1) the level of strategic, organizational, and operational adaptability in responding to shifts in the geostrategic and regional security environment; (2) the ability to identify, anticipate, exploit, and sustain niche military innovation – select conceptual, organizational, and technological innovation intended to enhance the military’s ability to prepare for, fight, and win wars, and (3) strategic culture. While the book represents relevant empirical cases for testing the validity of the RMA diffusion hypotheses, from a policy-oriented perspective, this book argues that these case studies offer lessons learned in coping with the security and defence management challenges posed by military innovation in general. This book will be of much interest for students of military innovation, strategic studies, defence studies, Asian politics, Middle Eastern politics and security studies in general.
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 Minimizing Coordination Problems Between the JFACC and JFLCC in the Coordination of Joint Fires Between the FSCL and Land Component Forward Boundary written by Michael J. Barbee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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 Coordination Challenges in Optimizing Employment of Advanced NSFS Weapons written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint Vision 2020 and the operational concepts of STOM and deep operations demonstrate the necessity for development of weapon systems to support combat operations over the entire depth of the battlespace. In support of these requirements, the Navy has undertaken the development advanced NSFS weapons that will be capable of providing a sustainable high volume rate of long range, precision fires in all weather conditions. Optimizing the employment of the advanced NSFS combat power will enable the operational commander to maximize economy of force and principle of mass. The challenge to optimizing the employment of advanced NSFS combat power resides in establishing unity of effort for fires and airspace deconfliction throughout the battlespace. The failure of joint doctrine to adequately address three critical deconfliction issues; delineation of the boundary between close and deep operations, designation of the control authority for fires in deep operations and the use of Killboxes, has resulted in doctrinal differences that pose unnecessary challenges to fires deconfliction.
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 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 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 The Answer Is written by Mark H. Ayers and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the question of who should plan and control joint fires beyond the fire support coordination line (FSCL). Since the Gulf War, the Army and Air Force have met at the annual Army-Air Force Warfighter Talks to reconcile doctrinal disparities in order to ensure their preeminence as the world's finest air-land team. At the 1994 Talks, a working group was chartered to tackle the contentious issues that impact on the development of Joint doctrine. One such issue was the friction over who should plan and control joint fires beyond FSCL. Overlapping areas of responsibility create questions over control of combat assets. On a dynamic battlefield, the military cannot afford disagreements over targeting. As partners in the air-land team, the two services must have a mutual understanding of command relationships to ensure smooth and seamless operations throughout the theater. The contentious issue over who should plan and control the use of combat assets beyond the FSCL requires resolution in order to enhance the JFC's ability to maximize the effects of joint fires and minimize friction between the Services. ultimately, unresolved disagreements in a theater of war or operations could kill soldiers, sailors, airmen, or marines. This monograph uses the Gulf War as case study to determine what lessons learned from that conflict helped shaped the Army's and Air Force's interpretations of how joint fires should be planned and controlled during a theater campaign. With interpretations identified, the author examines their impact on current and emerging service and joint doctrine. Finally an analysis of the doctrine will determine if the questions of who should plan and control joint fires beyond the FSCL is adequately addressed in current doctrine, emerging doctrine, or the issue requires further resolution.
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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.
