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...
This monograph examines the adequacy of doctrinal decision-making procedures for the operational level of war. These doctrinal procedures are found in emerging joint doctrine. For these procedures to be adequate, they should: provide a rigorous...
The Gulf War provided a glimpse of the possibility for the simultaneous tactical, operational and strategic paralysis of the enemy. Technology coupled with sheer numbers gave the joint force commander the ability to pursue multiple objectives...
This monograph examines Joint Pub 1, Joint Warfare of the US Armed Forces. It assesses if Joint Pub 1 is still a sound capstone manual which provides a common perspective for the continuing development of joint and service doctrine. The American...
This monograph examines USAF fighter doctrine as is applies to contingency operations. The monograph briefly analyzes joint doctrine to describe a model of the operational continuum. This provides a basis to study doctrine covering military...
Successful interdiction operations are critical to the achievement of the Joint Force Commander's operational objectives and can significantly affect the outcome of war. Joint Pub 3-0, Doctrine for Joint Operations, defines interdiction as an...
This monograph highlights the lack of a doctrinal course of action development process for creating campaign plans. Such a process is needed due to the inexperience of both senior leaden and middle-grade staff officers with the operational level of...
This monograph examines the Marine Corps' current doctrine for campaign planning. The collapse of the Soviet government and the ongoing dispute over the control of the former Soviet military alters how the United States military will conduct...
This monograph assesses the adequacy of current United States joint campaign planning doctrine within the context of conventional operations between similar forces within a theater of war. The study focuses on five key doctrinal planning concepts...
This publication describes the use of operations security (OPSEC) in the planning, preparation, and execution of joint operations. Additionally, it provides the procedures for the conduct of OPSEC surveys.
The focus of this monograph is to determine if present joint and service component command and control (C2) doctrine, organization, and support systems ensure adequate interoperability when different services are brought together to fight as part...
United States military forces are entering the 21st century doctrinally unprepared for the challenges that await. The National Security Strategy of the United States, the National Military Strategy, and Joint Vision 2020 all posit the need for...
This monograph examines whether or not a Combatant Command Training Program would improve Joint Task Force (JTF) synchronization in a resource constrained environment. Using historical examples, doctrinal analysis, and current combatant command...
The purpose of this research paper is to provide answers to a series of basic questions as a first step in addressing some of the details necessary to implement the Joint Force Land Component Commander (JFLCC) concept in a theater of operations or...
This study investigates past and current US Army and US Air Force doctrine and proposed joint doctrine for interdiction operations at the operational level of war. The investigation assesses the post-Korean Conflict role of interdiction, analyzes...
Synchronization, "the ability to focus resources and activities in time and space to produce maximum relative combat power at the decisive point," is a tenet of US Army doctrine. This monograph reviews the concept of synchronization at the...
Over the years, there has been debate within the services about whether Clausewitz's theories should be used as a basis for modern warfighting doctrine. The majority of debate has focused on the specific issue of whether Clausewitz's most well...
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 joint force commander (JFC) and his staff are increasingly challenged with emerging complexities of the 21st Century security environment. The purpose of this paper was to analyze the joint force command environment, trying to assess the...