This monograph examines how the corps planning organization transitions in the corps-to-JTF contingency operation scenario. The research question of the monograph is, “Should the corps form the separate planning elements of the J35, future...
This publication provides a comprehensive overview of several key areas of sealift that are considered essential for the successful employment of sealift in support of national military strategy. These areas are the contribution of sealift to the...
This monograph discusses the United States Army's force generation posture in regards to contingency operations in an immature operational theater. It seeks to determine if the Army's current force generation system is adequate to support force...
Force caps and related command and control issues had a considerable influence on the conduct of operations in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. This paper attempts to answer the question, "Did force caps prevent ground component...
At the operational and strategic levels, military planners use the concepts of centers of gravity and decisive points to assist them in determining the best ways for accomplishing assigned tasks. By identifying the enemy's center of gravity, the...
This study investigates the potential for the use of World Wide Web (WWW) technology to support the warfighter. Existing tactical data networks, and command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence for the warrior (C4IFTW) systems are...
Detailed planning of complicated and multifaceted operations, often in crisis situations, is a way of life for the military. During crisis action planning, diverse staff elements must agree on a number of details for a successful plan to come...
This study proposes a methodology for determining adaptive force packaging in support of martial operations. This non-quantitative process traces the path from national strategy to force selection for either preemptive or reactionary military...
This study reviews leadership theory and application, and it assembles a heuristic model of leadership's macrocosm. It intends to inspire an appreciation of the broad spectrum of leadership styles and their varied effectiveness. Moreover, it...
This monograph explores the need to identify humanitarian assistance response ready groups. The increasing number of humanitarian assistance missions performed by the US military indicates the need to identify response ready groups. Response ready...
Planning is perhaps the most difficult human activity. It is even more problematic when that future is uncertain and the implications of today’s decisions endure for years. For the military, planning is particularly consequential, since poor...
The United States has now invaded Iraq on two separate occasions. These invasions offer some interesting similarities such as occurring on nearly the same terrain with similar equipment and against Iraqi forces under the leadership of Saddam...
This manual is a guide for Army commanders and planners. It provides capstone doctrine for the development of Army policy for planning and executing mobilization, deployment, redeployment, and demobilization (MDRD) operations. This manual describes...
The joint task force (JTF) headquarters (HQ) is normally a joint organization tailored to meet contingency warfighting requirements for the Unified Commanders in Chief (CINCs). It involves two or more services normally for a limited objective and...
Joint doctrine places the staff cognizance for engineering under J4 Logistics by emphasizing sustainment engineering functions. The Uniform Joint Task List identifies operational requirements for combat engineering functions, but no joint doctrine...
This monograph reviews the highly successful U.S. deployment to Operation Desert Storm, explores current strategic mobility initiatives, and critically examines ongoing initiatives to eliminate strategic lift shortfalls. It includes a comparison of...
This monograph examines the issue of joint warfare. It is limited to the aspects of air and ground integration. Specifically, this paper will focus the command and control of air interdiction and close air missions in support of ground operations....
This monograph examines the problem of decoupling between the commander and joint battle staff of a joint task force, and its antidote, networking. Effective networking between the commander and staff enables both the commander and joint staff to...
This monograph discusses progress made toward overcoming inherit difficulties of the joint or combined task force headquarters. Since the end of the Second World War the United States Armed Forces have increasingly used either joint or combined...
After publishing the Army's centerpiece doctrinal manual FM100-5 Operations in June 1993, the Army lived up to its assertion that intellectual change leads physical change and immediately began working on its vision of future joint military...