The Standing Joint Force Headquarters provides a planning multiplier by bringing both joint and regional expertise to the Joint Task Force Headquarters increasing its capabilities. These capabilities assist in the rapid establishment of a fully...
The most critical component to theater opening and distribution is the strategic-to-operational seam. Covering this seam are four U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) deployment and distribution capabilities. These capabilities include the...
This monograph investigates whether the U.S. military should establish joint doctrine for unconventional warfare. Since the passage of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, joint doctrine has become central to...
The Army Chief of Staff wants to know if the United States Army has taken the appropriate actions to prepare leaders for the evolutionary change of future warfare: joint operations involving air, land, and sea forces? General Shinseki's question is...
No one can predict the future but you must prepare for it. 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...
The Department of Defense (DoD) has long recognized the need for interservice cooperation in warfighting and has been slowly evolving to structure, train, and equip the forces to facilitate this joint cooperation. Today, joint cooperation is even...
Publication of Another Crossroads? Professional Military Education Two Decades After the Goldwater-Nichols Act and the Skelton Panel by the House Armed Service Committee calls into question the ability of our current Joint Professional Military...
The 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act (GNA) was a call to jointness, an attempt to correct the overwhelming service centric nature of the U.S. military. In 1988, the Panel on Military Education of the One Hundredth Congress of the Committee on Armed...
This publication provides a readily available list of all joint publications and a brief synopsis of each. Included is an overview of joint doctrine development, all promulgated joint publications, all joint publications currently under...
The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the Army acquires enablers to conduct Joint Training at the Brigade level during a Combat Training Center rotation at the National Training Center. This study is a qualitative research project, which...
What capabilities are required for the Unit of Employment, X (UEx) to plan joint operational level campaigns and operations? The proposed UEx staff structure in the Unit of Employment Operations, White Paper Version 3.5 does not appear to be...
Operation Anaconda, a subordinate operation to Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002, was notable for difficulties in integrating US air and ground forces in order to bring combat power to bear on a stronger than originally anticipated foe. In the...
Transformation is the buzzword of the new millennium for the United States military complex. The future of the Department of Defense and the individual armed services are now at stake, whether current transformational efforts stem from internal...
This paper examines the current two-phased Joint Professional Military Education system adopted by the Army in response to the requirements of the Goldwater-Nichols Act. It determines what the legislation actually said and how the law has been...
Throughout history, the process of targeting the enemy and its elements of power has been an essential component of achieving victory in warfare. The process of identifying, prioritizing and affecting targets in accordance with national goals and...
The Secretary of Defense charged the United States Atlantic Command (USACOM) on 1 October 1998 to conduct Joint Experimentation (JE) in support of the Defense of Department (DoD) Joint Vision 2010 concept. Since a common definition of joint...
This monograph explores the Marine Corps' response to the provisions of the Goldwater-Nichols Act which influence joint education, joint doctrine, and joint officer assignments. It focuses on the Marine Corps' response to the initial legislation of...
Less than ten years after opening the Gulf War Air campaign, Army Attack Aviation was propelled into the spotlight over a perceived failure to support the North Atlantic Treaty Organization air operations in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Since...
The National Guard has been in a nearly constant state of change, in one form or another, since its inception. The events that have transpired since the attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 demonstrated the need for the next major...