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Book Synopsis Warfighting Resources and the Need for Operational Planning by :
Download or read book Warfighting Resources and the Need for Operational Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the future, commanders at the operational level will face fighting an air operation with less resources. As the Gulf War reveals in many of its statistics, there are a number of ways this could happen. Current resource reductions might impact, as could weather, attrition, enemy actions and other things. Therefore, a commander must avoid policies that limit available resources. One such poor policy is the Omnibus agreement, which establishes a poor precedent for the management of resources in a resource-limited environment. This policy makes no sense either as a way to manage resources, or from the perspective of good warfighting doctrine. Remarkably, many of the principles in Marine Corps doctrine argue against the Omnibus Agreement. Obviously, there is an inherent conflict between the resource needs of operational and tactical level commanders which must be resolved to effectively manage resources and win wars. This conflict can only be effectively resolved with good operational planning. This planning eliminates confusion and prioritizes efforts. In future wars, such guidance is absolutely essential as resources become less. (KAR) P. 2.
Book Synopsis Warfighting Resources and the Need for Operational Planning by : Jay E. Seward
Download or read book Warfighting Resources and the Need for Operational Planning written by Jay E. Seward and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves by : Lucía Martínez Ordóñez
Download or read book Military Operational Planning and Strategic Moves written by Lucía Martínez Ordóñez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs game theory to warfare and in particular to military operations. It aims at scrutinizing the validity of the two ideas that have governed the literature on war and warfighting: One is the Clausewitzian Fog of War, which suggests that he who is able to "see" through the gunsmoke and observe his opponent’s moves before he has to commit to some strategy himself, should be able to gain an advantage over that enemy; the other is the tradition of understanding military conflict as a zero-sum game. Combined, these ideas seem to imply that war always gives rise to a second-mover advantage. This book questions the validity of this presumption at the operational level of military planning. It provides a simple but rigorous game-theoretic framework in order to analyse operational alternatives for a whole range of typical conflicts Western military forces are facing, including the most recent ones such as Anti-Access/Area-Denial and supporting host nations' counterinsurgency campaigns.
Book Synopsis The Continuing Utility of Phasing Constructs in Operational Planning by : MAJ Scott L., Scott Taylor, US Army
Download or read book The Continuing Utility of Phasing Constructs in Operational Planning written by MAJ Scott L., Scott Taylor, US Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent assertions have been made that the nature of warfare in our current operating environment has changed in such a way that phasing in military operations has outlasted its utility and become problematic, requiring it to be eliminated or replaced in military planning. The problem this monograph attempts to evaluate and solve is whether or not phasing in U.S. Military doctrine and operational design still has utility in planning military operations, or if it should be eliminated or replaced by some other means of visualizing plans and arranging forces for military operations. Phasing has been utilized to assist U.S. Military commanders and planners to visualize plans and how forces should be arranged to conduct military operations and campaigns since the creation of operational design in the 1920's. Phasing has been applied in planning conventional as well as nonconventional military operations. Recent criticisms of phasing have surfaced in the aftermath of Operation Iraqi Freedom's failure to rapidly stabilize Iraq in Phase IV of the operation. This paper analyzes phasing through theoretical and historical influences to trace how it has become a part of operational design and planning. Phasing is described and defined in U.S. Military doctrine from its first appearance as a method to assist in planning in the 1920's to the present and historical examples are provided as examples of its use. Mao Tse Tung's use of phasing to visualize the strategy for conducting his Protracted War against Japan is analyzed to determine what influence it may have had on U.S. Military doctrine. Criticism of phasing and proposed alternatives are presented and scrutinized through Systems Theory, Complexity Theory, logic, and doctrine to evaluate the rationality for criticism and applicability of alternative methods for visualizing plans and arranging forces. Recent changes and modifications to phasing in U.S. Military doctrine are analyzed to understand the logic behind the changes. Emerging concepts such as Operational Net Assessment, Effects Based Operations, and Net-Centric Warfare are described and analyzed through a "system of systems" approach to understand both the positive and negative influences they are having on U.S. Military doctrine and phasing. A concept for "red teaming" is proposed as a method for establishing a foundation for understanding strategic and operational problems, synchronizing efforts, and coordinating between the U.S. Military, other government agencies, and non-government agencies to improve problem solving capabilities and integration of elements of national power. The influence emerging concepts are having on doctrine and their military applications are analyzed to determine how they can be used to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of arranging forces through phasing in operational design. The principle findings and conclusions are that warfare in our current operating environment has not changed in such a way that has made it necessary to eliminate or replace phasing in military planning. Phasing is not a method for solving problems. Military operations or campaigns to solve problems should be visualized from start to finish in order create an understanding of what must be accomplished to achieve the desired end-state. Phasing should be utilized within the visualization of the plan to arrange forces in terms of resources, time, space and purpose to accomplish objectives that cannot be accomplished concurrently or require transition of efforts or forces within the plan. The phases of a plan should be analyzed holistically in order to understand the relationships between the phases and how actions in each phase will effect the others. Misuse, misunderstanding, and misapplication of phasing in military planning can lead to plans that fail to achieve strategic and operational end-states.
Book Synopsis Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 [--1943-1944] by : Maurice Matloff
Download or read book Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 [--1943-1944] written by Maurice Matloff and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mcdp 5 Planning by : Department of Defense
Download or read book Mcdp 5 Planning written by Department of Defense and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication describes the theory and philosophy of military planning as practiced by the U.S. Marine Corps. The intent is to describe how we can prepare effectively for future action when the future is uncertain and unpredictable. In so doing, this publication provides all Marines a conceptual framework for planning in peace, in crisis, or in war. This approach to planning is based on our common understanding of the nature of war and on our warfighting philosophy of maneuver warfare as described in Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP) 1, Warfighting.
Book Synopsis Warfighting by : Department of the Navy
Download or read book Warfighting written by Department of the Navy and published by Vigeo Press. This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The manual describes the general strategy for the U.S. Marines but it is beneficial for not only every Marine to read but concepts on leadership can be gathered to lead a business to a family. If you want to see what make Marines so effective this book is a good place to start.
Book Synopsis User's Guide for JOPES (Joint Operation Planning and Execution System). by : United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Download or read book User's Guide for JOPES (Joint Operation Planning and Execution System). written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Planner's Handbook for Operational Design by : Joint Chiefs of Staff
Download or read book Planner's Handbook for Operational Design written by Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook describes operational design and its interaction with joint operation planning. It is based partly on joint doctrine contained in JP 5-0 , Joint Operation Planning, and JP 2-01.3, Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operational Environment, but it provides more details on operational design than currently exist in these publications. The handbook also highlights “best practices” derived from Service, joint, and multinational operations and joint exercises. In particular, this handbook increases the depth of discussion on operational design by incorporating new design-related ideas developed and refined in Service and joint academic institutions during the past three years. This handbook has two primary purposes. The first is to provide useful details to commanders and planners on joint operational design and its interaction with the joint operation planning process. The second is to stimulate thinking about the best ways to incorporate new, design-related ideas into emerging joint doctrine, training, and education. This handbook provides a platform the joint community can use to examine and debate design issues and establish a common frame of reference for collaboration on assimilating value-added ideas. This handbook focuses on operational design and related aspects of joint operation planning within strategic and operational-level context. The handbook is relevant to joint force commanders (JFC), joint force Service and functional component commanders, and their respective staffs. However, the staff is the intended target audience, especially those involved in planning joint operations.
Book Synopsis Naval Analytical Capabilities by : National Research Council
Download or read book Naval Analytical Capabilities written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-10-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval Analytical Capabilities assesses current Department of Defense initiatives and the Department of the Navy's progress in transitioning from a requirements-based to a capabilities-based organization. The report also provides recommendations aimed at improving the organizational structure of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to best position the Chief of Naval Operations to fulfill his Title 10 (U.S. Code on Armed Forces) responsibilities. This report addresses key elements of capabilities-based planning, examines Navy analytical processes, and recommends an approach to making improvements.
Download or read book Surviving Contact written by Mark B. Pye and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This research paper intended to find a better way to help the strategist account for the acknowledged unknowns in the operational plan--its assumptions. It outlines the current joint doctrine explanation of operational art and design and examines the criticality of assumptions in operational planning. It utilizes four historical examples to illustrate the impact of assumptions in war planning, and finally it provides conclusions and recommendations to construct a viable plan that can survive 'first contact.' Serving as the commander's keys to assessing risk, assumptions can identify decision points and act as catalysts for flexibility to 'survive the first contact' with an unpredictable enemy. The enabling element, however, for a plan to remain viable is not the assumption alone, but its marriage to the commander's critical information requirements (CCIRs) and ultimately an actionable branch plan. The criticality of that linkage, the importance of executable branch plans and the mitigating tools available to the commander and his planners are misunderstood and consequently underutilized. Assumptions identify the plan's risk and provide a crucial mechanism that frames what a plan is going to do and what it is not going to do. No matter the approach 'de jour' to operational design in today's lexicon (effects based operations (EBO), systemic operational design (SOD), etc.), assumptions will always be critical. Although the joint doctrine makes a meager attempt through scattered references to assumptions, it fails to recognize with any real fidelity the primacy of assumptions in effective planning, illustrate the cost of ignoring them in history, and provide techniques and procedures to account for them. Postulating that there is no such thing as a 'perfect plan' but acknowledging that 'failing to plan is planning to fail' this paper aims to provide a methodology to not only identify but actually account for assumptions that must be made. In conducting background research and gaining an understanding of the basic challenge in operational war planning, the author utilized several sources including the original OPLAN's for Operation OVERLORD (D-Day, 1944), Operation JUST CAUSE (Panama, 1989), and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (Iraq, 2003). Further historical and political context came from periodicals, journals, and books while joint doctrine and current operational design literature provided the theoretical background. Multiple interviews of operational planners and senior leaders provided insight on two of the four historical examples and recommendations for the future. Invaluable senior officer perspective came from Lt Gen (ret) Mike Short, CFACC during Operation ALLIED FORCE and Brig Gen Brian Meenan, the assistant AFFOR/A3 during Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. Next, the author interviewed current and former Army and Air Force chiefs of strategy and combat plans at USFK, EUSA, 7th Air Force, USCENTCOM and the Chief of Plans at the AEF Center. Unique OIF perspective was provided by Col John Agoglia, a USCENTCOM war planner for Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, and a CENTCOM advisor to Ambassador Bremer in Bagdad, Iraq. Col Agoglia is currently the Director of the U.S. Army's Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) at Carlisle, Pa. Col Steve Basham, Chief of the Combat Plans Division, 607th Korean Air Operations Center (KAOC), Air Forces Korea, and Lt Col Sam White, a USCENTCOM J-5 planner, provided insightful perspectives on current issues challenging the strategist. Finally, Dr. Jeff Reilly, former Eighth United States Army (EUSA) Plans Division Chief and Combined Forces Command planner and now Director of Instruction, Department of Joint Warfare Studies, Air Command and Staff College Maxwell AFB, AL provided thoughts on both challenges in war planning and the relevant debates in operational design."--Abstract.
Book Synopsis Resource Allocation and Management in Defence: Need for a Framework by :
Download or read book Resource Allocation and Management in Defence: Need for a Framework written by and published by KW Publishers Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question that faces governments and militaries the world over is how best to allocate resources for management of defence in the new age. This book, by Shri A.K. Ghosh who has an economics background, explores the framework for change in resource allocation and capability building. It emphasises the importance of introducing programming in Indian defence to serve as a link between defence planning and budgeting. Them is match between defence planning and budgeting needs to be connected by the introduction of resource constrained budgeting, having a multi-year perspective. The RMA, force modernisation, cost-benefit analysis,management of risks, and internal and external audits are among the many issues the author has provided a perspective on. It is argued by the author that defence needs to be viewed as a giant business and, where possible, business practices should be introduced. The book is recommended reading forth planners and decision-makers of defence management and will benefit readers from the armed forces as well. The lay readers interested in the subject of national defence and security will also find it useful and interesting.
Book Synopsis Joint Operational Warfare by : Milan N. Vego
Download or read book Joint Operational Warfare written by Milan N. Vego and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smallholder farmers and pastoralists fulfil an invaluable yet undervalued role in conserving biodiversity. They act as guardians of locally adapted livestock breeds that can make use of even marginal environments under tough climatic conditions and therefore are a crucial resource for food security. But in addition, by sustaining animals on natural vegetation and as part of local ecosystems, these communities also make a significant contribution to the conservation of wild biodiversity and of cultural landscapes. This publication provides a glimpse into the often intricate knowledge systems that pastoralists and smallholder farmers have developed for the management of their breeds in specific production systems and it also describes the multitude of threats and challenges these often marginalized communities have to cope with.
Book Synopsis Fundamentals of Force Planning: Concepts by :
Download or read book Fundamentals of Force Planning: Concepts written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare: 1943-1944 by : Maurice Matloff
Download or read book Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare: 1943-1944 written by Maurice Matloff and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The CINCs' Strategies: the Combatant Command Process by :
Download or read book The CINCs' Strategies: the Combatant Command Process written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 by : Maurice Matloff
Download or read book Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 written by Maurice Matloff and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of wartime national planning and military strategy as they affected the missions and dispositions of the U.S. Army in the defensive phase of coalition warfare.
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