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Commander's Handbook for Joint Support to Distributed Forces

Author : U. S. Joint Command
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781480038677
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (386 download)

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Book Synopsis Commander's Handbook for Joint Support to Distributed Forces by : U. S. Joint Command

Download or read book Commander's Handbook for Joint Support to Distributed Forces written by U. S. Joint Command and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a pre-doctrinal non-authoritative document that provides information on how JTF and component headquarters might plan for and provide capabilities to tactical units, principally battalion level and below, when they are employed widely dispersed and outside of mutually supporting range of other ground units. Although focused on ground units, there are significant implications for the air and naval components of the joint force as well. The document serves as a bridge between experimentation and current best practices and the potential incorporation of value-added ideas in joint doctrine, education, and training. This handbook is the result of study, concept development, experimentation, and analysis that began in 2005 when the Marine Corps released a white paper entitled A Concept for Distributed Operations. This concept was intended "...to promote discussion and to generate ideas for specific combat development initiatives" in the context of "...the irregular challenges of Small Wars." It focused on enabling small units to function with greater operational initiative and independence. In response to the concept, the Marine Corps Combat Development Command initiated a number of activities, including limited objective experiments conducted by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. USJFCOM began a study of joint distributed operations (JDO) based on three "warfighter challenges" (Forcible Entry and Distributed Operations, Lift, and Mobility and Sustainment), which the Marine Corps submitted to USJFCOM J9 in 2009 and 2010 in conjunction with USJFCOM's annual Joint Concept Development and Experimentation Campaign Plan. As part of the USJFCOM JDO project, J9 developed an informal Concept for Joint Distributed Operations in November 2009. This concept and previous Marine Corps efforts informed a USJFCOM-led campaign of experimentation conducted in 2009 and 2010 intended to identify capabilities that could contribute to the successful execution of operations by widely dispersed organizations. This handbook identifies various issues and considerations for conducting these operations based on insights from ongoing operations and experimentation results. USJFCOM's Joint Operating Environment (JOE) provides the future environmental context within which to examine these issues and considerations. The JOE states that "The nature of the human condition will guarantee that uncertainty, ambiguity, and surprise will dominate the course of events." It continues with a conclusion that surprise will be inevitable even as joint forces prepare for a wide range of military operations, and that commanders at all levels will face complex, dynamic, and unpredictable situations for which established concepts and doctrine can provide only a solid foundation as a point of departure. This handbook is based on Service and joint lessons learned data; joint, multi-national, and Service doctrine and procedures; training and education material from CAPSTONE, KEYSTONE, and PINNACLE senior executive education programs; joint and Service exercise observations, facilitated after-action reviews and commander's summary reports; related joint concepts and experimentation results; joint exercises and trip reports; and joint publication assessment reports. The handbook also includes the results of a two-year analysis and experimentation effort requested by the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and conducted by USJFCOM, with participation by all the Services and many international partners. The experimentation campaign encompassed an analytical wargame, three constructive simulation efforts, a "human-in-the-loop experiment," and focused seminar sessions with retired senior commanders and currently serving officers with recent operational experience. The experimentation effort focused on stressing potential joint solutions in a distinctly different operational environment.

Commander's Handbook for Joint Support to Distributed Forces

Author : U S Joint Forces Command
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500713232
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Commander's Handbook for Joint Support to Distributed Forces written by U S Joint Forces Command and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a pre-doctrinal non-authoritative document that provides information on how JTF and component headquarters might plan for and provide capabilities to tactical units, principally battalion level and below, when they are employed widely dispersed and outside of mutually supporting range of other ground units. Although focused on ground units, there are significant implications for the air and naval components of the joint force as well. The document serves as a bridge between experimentation and current best practices and the potential incorporation of value-added ideas in joint doctrine, education, and training.

21st Century U.S. Military Manuals

Author : U. S. Navy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781980736141
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book 21st Century U.S. Military Manuals written by U. S. Navy and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joint Force Land Component Commander Handbook (JFLCC) provides guidance for planning and conducting land operations requiring the close coordination of Army forces and Marine Corps forces under the control of a joint force land component commander within a joint operations area. It presents considerations and options that joint force commanders can employ when designating a joint force land component commander and describes the authority and responsibilities of a joint force land component commander. This handbook describes guidance for establishing the command relationship based on the joint force commander's concept of operations. It addresses formation, functions, and organization of the joint force land component commander. It also discusses the operational questions of who, what, when, and how of operations in support of major operations or campaigns by a joint force commander. It is not the intent of this handbook to supplant approved joint doctrine; nor is it the intent to restrict the authority of the joint force commander from organizing the force and executing the mission in a manner he deems most appropriate to ensure unity of effort in the accomplishment of the overall mission. The guidance in this handbook applies to combatant commanders, sub-joint task forces, and subordinate components of these commands.

Commander's Handbook for the Joint Interagency Coordination Group

Author : Joint Warfighting Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781466417052
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Commander's Handbook for the Joint Interagency Coordination Group by : Joint Warfighting Center

Download or read book Commander's Handbook for the Joint Interagency Coordination Group written by Joint Warfighting Center and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Scope The Commander's Handbook for the Joint Interagency Coordination Group provides techniques and procedures that are evolving in the joint community and being incorporated into joint publications. 2. Purpose This handbook serves as a bridge between the evolving JIACG and its migration into doctrine. As such, it is intended to inform doctrine writers, educators, and trainers about the JIACG and its potential for further inclusion in joint doctrine, education, and training. It fills the existing void between emerging concepts and published joint doctrine. It also presents well developed definitions that have been harmonized with current and evolving joint doctrine and discusses those "best practices" that have proven of value during on-going military operations, exercises, and experimentation. This handbook provides potential joint and Service users a definitive publication on "how" a JIACG may be organized and employed to support interagency coordination at the operational level, particularly during the planning and execution of a joint operation. 3. Application The handbook is meant to educate the joint community about the JIACG and to offer some useful techniques and procedures that can be used in the combatant commands by joint force commanders and their staffs. The handbook focuses on JIACG coordination of interagency efforts in deploying and employing joint forces in concert with the other instruments of national power. 4. Command The recommendations in this handbook are based on best practices observed during current operations, exercises, experimentation, and prototyping, as well as existing joint doctrine. Commanders may tailor specific elements to conform to their individual staff requirements.

Joint Officer Handbook (JOH) Staffing and Action Guide

Author : United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Staff. J-7
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Joint Officer Handbook (JOH) Staffing and Action Guide by : United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Staff. J-7

Download or read book Joint Officer Handbook (JOH) Staffing and Action Guide written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Staff. J-7 and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical and easily accessible guide for those new to the joint environment and staff assignments. With input from serving action officers and senior leaders, here are the competencies and behaviors of highly effective and successful joint staff officers which provide a roadmap for career self development. This is the most current joint information available for managing staff activities.

Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL) Development Handbook

Author : United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL) Development Handbook written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of JMETL development involves the examination of the missions of a combatant commander, subordinate joint force commander, and functional or Service component commanders in order to establish required warfighting capabilities consisting of joint tasks, conditions, and standards. This handbook is intended to assist the combatant commands describe required capabilities in a form useful in the planning, execution and assessment phases of the joint training system. Further, it should aid resource providers and the Joint Staff in examining and coordinating joint training requirements among a number of combatant commands with diverse missions. The next phase of the joint training system begins with the development of a joint training plan delineating how combatant commanders allocate their joint training resources to meet JMETL requirements.

Joint Training Manual for the Armed Forces of the United States

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Joint Training Manual for the Armed Forces of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL) Development Handbook

Author : United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL) Development Handbook written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of JMETL development involves the examination of the missions of a combatant commander, subordinate joint force commander, and functional or Service component commanders in order to establish required warfighting capabilities consisting of joint tasks, conditions, and standards. This handbook is intended to assist the combatant commands describe required capabilities in a form useful in the planning, execution and assessment phases of the joint training system. Further, it should aid resource providers and the Joint Staff in examining and coordinating joint training requirements among a number of combatant commands with diverse missions. The next phase of the joint training system begins with the development of a joint training plan delineating how combatant commanders allocate their joint training resources to meet JMETL requirements.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commander's Handbook for Persistent Surveillance

Author : U. S. Joint Command
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781480125209
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis Commander's Handbook for Persistent Surveillance by : U. S. Joint Command

Download or read book Commander's Handbook for Persistent Surveillance written by U. S. Joint Command and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides pre-doctrinal guidance on the planning, execution, and assessment of joint integrated persistent surveillance (JIPS) by a joint task force (JTF) and its components. Significant prior work has been done in support of persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and much of the information in this handbook was gleaned from that data. However, the scope of this handbook pertains to the subset of persistent surveillance: the processes which contribute to creating a persistent surveillance strategy and those required for executing persistent surveillance missions. The document serves as a bridge between current best practices in the field and incorporation of value-added ideas in joint doctrine. This handbook draws on current doctrine, useful results from relevant studies and experimentation, and recognized best practices. It presents some challenges of persistent surveillance to include capability gaps and some potential solutions to these shortfalls, especially in the areas of planning and preparation, managing requirements and tasking, visualization and tracking, and assessment of persistent surveillance missions. It also offers some considerations for the future development of JIPS-related joint doctrine, training, materiel (logistics), leadership education, personnel, facility planning, and policy (DOTMLPF-P). This handbook is based on joint lessons and Service learned data; joint, multinational, and Service doctrine and procedures; training and education material from CAPSTONE, KEYSTONE, and PINNACLE senior executive education programs; joint and Service exercise observations, facilitated after-action reviews and commander's summary reports; related joint concepts; experimentation results; joint exercises and trip reports; joint publication assessment reports; research from advanced concept/joint capability technology development projects and capability development documentation for acquisition programs, and DOTMLPF-P change recommendations. This handbook also includes the results of a two-year analysis and experimentation effort conducted by Joint Doctrine Support Division and Solution Evaluation Division, with participation by all the Services. The JIPS project was driven by the following military problem statement: "The JFC requires adequate capability to rapidly integrate and focus national to tactical collection assets to achieve the persistent surveillance of a designated geographic area or a specific mission set." The genesis/mandate was that five of the top 40 FY 09-10 priority warfighter challenges (WFCs) require persistent surveillance solutions (WFCs 2, 4, 13, 20, 30) as reported by USPACOM, USCENTCOM, and the Marine Corps Combat Development Command. Experimentation included a stakeholder conference; baseline assessment; a constructive simulation effort; a "human-in-the-loop" experiment; and a multi-Service, coalition, live-fly environment experiment that simulated operations in Afghanistan (EMPIRE CHALLENGE 2010). Development of the JIPS handbook is tied to the four major outcomes from experimentation and reflects concepts of operations developed for the proposed DOTMLPF-P change recommendation submission.

Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL) Development Handbook

Author : Dynamics Research Corporation
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781482654707
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (547 download)

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Book Synopsis Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL) Development Handbook by : Dynamics Research Corporation

Download or read book Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL) Development Handbook written by Dynamics Research Corporation and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is designed to help combatant commanders, subordinate joint force commanders, and functional or Service component commanders implement the Joint Mission Essential Task List (JMETL) process described in CJCSI 3500.01, Joint Training Policy for the Armed Forces of the United States. Definition of Joint Training. Joint training is military training based on joint doctrine designed to prepare joint forces and/or joint staffs to respond to operational requirements identified by joint force commanders. Joint training generally involves the performance of tasks by members or elements of more than one military Service under the direction of a joint force commander. The responsibility for joint training resides with the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), combatant commanders, and subordinate joint force commanders. Importance of Joint Training. Over the past several years, U.S. military forces have significantly downsized and moved from forward bases back to the Continental United States (CONUS). During the same period, the range of missions U.S. military forces must prepare for has greatly expanded. This combination of factors greatly increases the requirements for employment of joint forces. Thus, jointness will be central to the successful execution of future missions required of the U.S. Armed Forces and joint doctrine will assume increasing importance to the conduct of assigned missions. Consequently, if our armed forces are going to fight jointly, they must train jointly.

Joint Staff Officers Guide

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Joint Staff Officers Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

DSCA Handbook

Author : United States. Department of Defense
Publisher : United States Department of Defense
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book DSCA Handbook written by United States. Department of Defense and published by United States Department of Defense. This book was released on 2010 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-in one resource includes the Tactical Commanders and Staff Toolkit plus the Liaison Officer Toolkit. Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA)) enables tactical level Commanders and their Staffs to properly plan and execute assigned DSCA missions for all hazard operations, excluding Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, high yield Explosives (CBRNE) or acts of terrorism. Applies to all United States military forces, including Department of Defense (DOD) components (Active and Reserve forces and National Guard when in Federal Status). This hand-on resource also may be useful information for local and state first responders. Chapter 1 contains background information relative to Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA) including legal, doctinal, and policy issues. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the incident management processes including National Response Framework (NRF), National Incident Management Systems (NIMS), and Incident Command System (ICS) as well as Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Chapter 3 discuses the civilian and military responses to natural disaster. Chapter 4 provides a brief overview of Joint Operation Planning Process and mission analyis. Chapter 5 covers Defense Support of Civilian Authorities (DSCA) planning factors for response to all hazard events. Chapter 6 is review of safety and operational composite risk management processes Chapters 7-11 contain Concepts of Operation (CONOPS) and details five natrual hazards/disasters and the pertinent planning factors for each within the scope of DSCA.

Landpower in the Long War

Author : Jason W. Warren
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081317760X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Landpower in the Long War written by Jason W. Warren and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and landpower's role in the twenty-first century is not just about military organizations, tactics, operations, and technology; it is also about strategy, policy, and social and political contexts. After fourteen years of war in the Middle East with dubious results, a diminished national reputation, and a continuing drawdown of troops with perhaps a future force increase proposed by the Trump administration, the role of landpower in US grand strategy will continue to evolve with changing geopolitical situations. Landpower in the Long War: Projecting Force After 9/11, edited by Jason W. Warren, is the first holistic academic analysis of American strategic landpower. Divided into thematic sections, this study presents a comprehensive approach to a critical aspect of US foreign policy as the threat or ability to use force underpins diplomacy. The text begins with more traditional issues, such as strategy and civilian-military relations, and works its way to more contemporary topics, such as how socio-cultural considerations effect the landpower force. It also includes a synopsis of the suppressed Iraq report from one of the now retired leaders of that effort. The contributors—made up of an interdisciplinary team of political scientists, historians, and military practitioners—demonstrate that the conceptualization of landpower must move beyond the limited operational definition offered by Army doctrine in order to encompass social changes, trauma, the rule of law, acquisition of needed equipment, civil-military relationships, and bureaucratic decision-making, and argue that landpower should be a useful concept for warfighters and government agencies.

Handbook for Military Support to Economic Stabilization

Author : U. S. Joint Command
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781480134515
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Handbook for Military Support to Economic Stabilization written by U. S. Joint Command and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook for Military Support to Economic Stabilization provides established and evolving techniques and procedures used by joint force commanders (JFCs) and their staffs in planning, executing, and assessing joint force support to economic stabilization during post-conflict conditions. This handbook's primary purpose is to provide the JFC and staff with a common, practical baseline of "best practices" and inform doctrine writers, educators, and trainers about joint force support to civilian-led economic stabilization. It also may serve as a bridge between current practices in the field and their migration into doctrine. Over the past several decades, the Department of Defense (DOD) has learned many lessons while conducting stability operations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Although FM 3-07, Stability Operations, provides a basic foundation for military activities across all five stability operations sectors, there has been little doctrine or guidance published specifically for military support to economic stabilization. Consequently, this handbook is intended to provide more detailed guidance at the operational level on the range of functions required to achieve stability in postconflict situations and to help identify specific economic stabilization-related tasks that may be required of joint forces to support stability operations. It presents commonly used definitions and constructs from the interagency and international communities that have been harmonized with joint doctrine, and discusses those "best practices" that have proven valuable during on-going joint operations, exercises, and experimentation. It stresses the importance of coordination with external organizations, defining supported and supporting roles, and focuses on considering economic factors during planning. While the handbook defines and discusses many potential military roles related to economic stabilization, there is no implication that US forces will automatically undertake any or all of these in a given instance. Rather, the handbook lays out the range of options available to support the process of economic stabilization, and special factors that may need to be taken into account. The information in this handbook also can inform recommendations to higher-level authorities regarding possible economic stabilization activities. As the United States Joint Forces Command continues to interact with the combatant commands, Services, and civilian agencies; we recognize that there is no universal methodology on how military support to economic stabilization is planned and conducted, nor should there be. Because of this realization, this handbook is a documented approach to ensure that commonly accepted, effective, and proven "best practices" are identified and integrated into joint force operations and doctrine.

Handbook for Military Support to Governance, Elections, and Media

Author : Us Joint Forces Command
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500508951
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Handbook for Military Support to Governance, Elections, and Media written by Us Joint Forces Command and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook for Military Support to Governance, Elections, and Media is Book Three in a set of five handbooks developed to assist the joint force commander design, plan, and execute a whole-of-government approach. Included with the series is an overview J7/J9 Pamphlet, Executive Summary of the Unified Action Handbook Series, that describes the handbooks, suggests how they should be used, and identifies the significant interrelationships among them. The last comprehensive guide to military governance was written in 1943. Combatant commanders have directed joint forces to rebuild media, support election preparations, and provide advisors to embryonic executive ministries and legislative committees in recent and current operations. This handbook provides pre-doctrinal guidance for joint force support to good governance, political competition, and support to media.

How the Army Runs: A Senior Leader Reference Handbook, 2017-2018 (31st Edition)

Author : U.S. Army War College
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359235743
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (592 download)

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Book Synopsis How the Army Runs: A Senior Leader Reference Handbook, 2017-2018 (31st Edition) by : U.S. Army War College

Download or read book How the Army Runs: A Senior Leader Reference Handbook, 2017-2018 (31st Edition) written by U.S. Army War College and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explains and synthesizes the functioning and relationships of numerous Defense, Joint, and Army organizations, systems, and processes involved in the development and sustainment of trained and ready forces for the Combatant Commanders. It is designed to be used by the faculty and students at the U.S. Army War College (as well as other training and educational institutions) as they improve their knowledge and understanding of "How the Army Runs." We are proud of the value that senior commanders and staffs place in this text and are pleased to continue to provide this reference.